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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.
Aug 26, 2013 · The essay is a vital examination of and intervention into the ways in which we construct the history of science fiction; Professor Rieder's recent book, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2008) is what you might call a worked example for the method advocated here.
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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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...
Jul 13, 2017 · 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 ...
May 1, 2008 · John Rieder argues that colonial history and ideology are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production.
