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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.
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.
- John Rieder
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...
Apr 17, 2012 · John Rieder explores the different functions of genre and how they relate to SF, starting from Darko Suvin’s famous (and probably to date most used definition) of science fiction as a literature of “estrangement and cognition” (3) he ends up closer to Damon Knight’s dictum than one would expect.
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).
