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Aug 3, 2017 · Science fiction became an increasingly significant genre for literary study after Darko Suvin’s (1979) epochal publication of Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, which raised the profile of science fiction as a legitimate field of academic enquiry (Hassler, 1999).
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
Aug 17, 2022 · Sci-fi has become a recognizable and legitimate genre in pop-culture studies, not only from the critical literature perspective but also from cultural and social science perspectives (for a review, see Menadue and Cheer, 2017). In this study, we define sci-fi as a specific genre of literature and audio-visual texts that envision and portray ...
Aug 3, 2017 · An unclear boundary between real science and science in the public imagination is problematic for research success, but the purposeful integration of fictional representations of science (both...
Aug 19, 2024 · Movies, comics, television series, and even cookbooks, have directly connected science to popular culture. This guide comprises a selection of books, graphic novels, and podcasts that will be helpful for researchers studying science in pop culture.
Oct 9, 2020 · Science fiction has been described as “a crucial and popular mode, even the mainstream mode, of thinking about life in a modern technoscientific world” (Weiner et al., 2018, p. 7) and, in popular forms, can provide remarkable insights into cultural perspectives and assumptions (Menadue, 2019b).
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Thus Mark Bould. and Sherryl Vint argue in a recent piece, drawing on Altman's work, that "There Is No Such Thing as Science Fiction," by which they mean that "genres are never, as frequently perceived, objects which already exist in the world and which are subsequently studied by genre critics, but fluid and tenuous constructions made.
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Oct 2, 2014 · Part II, “Science Fiction as Medium,” presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvassing extra-literary manifestations of SF ranging from film and television to video games and hypertext to music and theme parks.
