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Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns

By Pablo Gómez-Muñoz Copyright 2023
194 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

194 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

194 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel, teleportation, and supernatural abilities to address cosmopolitan concerns such as human rights, climate change, economic precarity, and mobility. This book identifies and analyses the new... Read more

Introduction: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns

1. Systemic Dystopias through a Cosmopolitan Lens: Contesting Global Neoliberalism

2. Greening Apocalypse: Eco-Conscious Disaster and the Biopolitics of Climate Change

3. Love for the Alien Same: Interplanetary Romance and Kinship as Harbingers of Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism

4. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Connections across Time and Space

Conclusion

Biography

Pablo Gómez-Muñoz is Assistant Professor of English and Film at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His research interests are transnational cinema, science fiction, borders, cosmopolitanism, globalization, precarity, and spectacle. His work has been published in journals such as Geopolitics, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Atlantis and volumes such as Making Sense of Popular Culture and Frontières au Cinéma.