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- He positions science fiction and the associated genres of the detective story, modern romance, western, horror and fantasy, as composing a genre system that is distinct from the pre-existing classical and academic genre system that includes the epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, romance, lyric, etc. Rieder supports his thesis by exploring the actual communities, practices, the market and wider social conditions that since the late nineteenth century till today have come to define what science...
John Rieder. On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History. In his groundbreaking 1984 essay, “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre,” Rick Altman could accurately state that “genre theory has up to now aimed almost exclusively at the elaboration of a synchronic model approximating the syntactic operation of a specific genre” (12).
The term science fiction became widely used in the pulps in the 1930s, and it is strongly associated with the dominant form taken by it in the 1940s and 1950s pulp magazines, a period that continues to be called science fiction's Golden Age. MLA Citation of this article: Rieder, John.
I would say that the more inclusive and broadly-based bibliographies of Bleiler and Clareson are to be preferred.Examples of the kind of delineation of the emergence of the genre advocated here include Rieder's in chapter 2 of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science 2 and 3 of Luckhurst's Science Fiction.
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In his groundbreaking 1984 essay, "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre," Rick Altman could accurately state that "genre theory has up to now aimed almost exclusively at theelaboration of a synchroniemodel approximating the syntactic operation of a specific genre" (12).
John Rieder provides a detailed academic analysis of science fiction as a popular genre from the postmodern perspective (Rieder, 2010), describing Wittgenstein's 'family resemblances', and Lofti...
Jul 13, 2017 · Rieder’s thesis in this innovative approach to the history of what we understand to be science fiction is that ‘it is an organic genre of the mass cultural genre system’ (9).
Mar 7, 2017 · A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fiction. In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory.
