Download or read book Cyberpunk Steampunk and Wizardry written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where writing on science fiction is concerned, it is the most recent decades that most often get overlooked, so that "big picture" views of the period are a rarity. CYBERPUNK, STEAMPUNK AND WIZARDRY seeks to correct that, offering an overview of the genre that emphasizes exactly these years, with an eye to the big trends and what they meant, both for science fiction, and today's culture as a whole.

Download or read book The Secret History of Science Fiction written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did science fiction emerge as a genre? What ideas—obsessions—drove its writers? And their readers? How and why has science fiction changed over time—and how has it not changed at all? And what does science fiction mean to people today? This collection by Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Wizardry and The End of Science Fiction? author Nader Elhefnawy takes up these questions and, focusing on those aspects of the field few care (or dare) to acknowledge looks past the clichès of the genre's history to offer some surprising answers about what science fiction has really been all about—and just where science fiction may be going in the years ahead.

Download or read book Youth Subcultures in Fiction Film and Other Media written by Nick Bentley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen studies, sociology and cultural studies whose research interests lie in the aesthetics and cultural politics of youth. It contributes to, and extends, contemporary theoretical perspectives around youth and youth cultures. Contributors examine a range of topics, including ‘bad girl’ fiction of the 1950s, novels by subcultural writers such as Colin MacInnes, Alex Wheatle and Courttia Newland, as well as screen representations of Mods, the 1990s Rave culture, heavy metal, and the Manchester scene. Others explore interventions into subcultural theory with respect to metal, subcultural locations, abjection, graffiti cultures, and the potential of subcultures to resist dominant power frameworks in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Download or read book The Ghost written by Josiah Loegering and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steampunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American "Wild West", where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. When a bizarre string of locked-room murders terrorize New York, the police have no leads, no suspects, and only one place to turn. Now private detective Alex Lockerby will need every magic trick in his book to catch a killer who can walk through walls and leaves no trace.

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Download or read book A Century of Spy Fiction written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CENTURY OF SPY FICTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE GENRE brings together Nader Elhefnawy's writings on that subject. From the birth of the spy story in the marriage of detective fiction with the invasion story to the genre's post-Cold War travails, from the forgotten but hugely important adventures of the original "international man of mystery" Duckworth Drew to the age of Jack Ryan, this revised and updated second edition of the book trace the broader history of the field while peering at many a keyhole to see just what has been going on all the while in this often mysterious genre about mystery.

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Download or read book Star Wars in Context written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often hear about the inspirations for and impact of Star Wars, but most of the discussion tends to be vague, cursory--and ill-informed. STAR WARS IN CONTEXT aims to do better, explaining and in cases debunking what others tend to just assume. This second edition of the book, over twice the length of the original, not only updates the discussion but expands on it, covering such questions as: * How did George Lucas's earlier films (THX 1138, American Graffiti) lead to Star Wars? * In what ways did Akira Kurosawa's films, Joseph Campbell, Bruno Bettelheim, Carlos Castaneda and the James Bond movies actually influence the films' creation? * Where did the idea of the Force come from, and why does it seem so vague and slippery? (As it happens, Castaneda had a lot to do with it.) * Why did fans react so strongly against the prequels, and then become so much more accepting of them later? * What part did Star Wars actually play in creating the movie blockbuster and film market as we now know it? Going from Modernism to the globalization of the entertainment industry, from New Age mysticism to journalistic poptimism in its search for the answers, STAR WARS IN CONTEXT sets the record straight on all this, and much more.

Download or read book The Military Techno Thriller written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MILITARY TECHNO-THRILLER: A HISTORY takes a close look at this widely read but still little studied genre, tracing its origins from the Victorian-era invasion story, to its 1980s heyday as king of the bestseller list in the hands of authors like Tom Clancy, down to today, considering its interaction with other genres and other media throughout. In the process, this book also tells the larger story of how the ways in which we think about, imagine and portray war have evolved during the last century.

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Download or read book Aliens in Popular Culture written by Michael M. Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture. The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; in many cases the essays in Aliens in Popular Culture are the first written on the topic. The book is a compendium of short entries on notable uses of aliens in popular culture across different media and platforms by almost 90 researchers in the field. It covers science fiction from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first century, including books, films, television, comics, games, and even advertisements. Individual essays point to the ways in which the imagined alien can be seen as a reflection of different fears and tensions within society, above all in the Anglo-American world. The book additionally provides an overview for context and suggestions for further reading. All varieties of readers will find it to be a comprehensive reference about the extra-terrestrial in popular culture.

Download or read book The Many Lives and Deaths of James Bond written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MANY LIVES AND DEATHS OF JAMES BOND looks at both the James Bond novels, and the James Bond films, and how they have related to each other and pop culture as a whole, from the place of Ian Fleming in the history of the spy novel, to the impact of the early Bond films on the action movie, to how the series has responded to six decades of political and cultural change. This second edition of the book up to date with coverage of the fiftieth anniversary film SKYFALL, and William Boyd's Bond novel, SOLO.

Download or read book After the New Wave written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFTER THE NEW WAVE: SCIENCE FICTION TODAY is a revised and updated version of AFTER THE NEW WAVE, Nader Elhefnawy's earlier collection of essays on science fiction.

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Download or read book Steampunk Culture written by Charles Von Westerly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Explore this interesting subculture in art, fashion, entertainment & more with Charles Von Westerly in this edition of his useful book.

Download or read book Transmedia Creatures written by Francesca Saggini and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Download or read book Cyberpunk Cyberculture written by Dani Cavallaro and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.