Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary (eBook)

John Timberlake (Autor)

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2018
250 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-861-6 (ISBN)

Infos

There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalysed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary corrects that oversight, making a powerful argument for science fiction as a visual cultural discourse. Taking influential historical works of visual art as starting points, along with illustrations, movie matte paintings, documentaries, artist's impressions and digital environments, John Timberlake focuses on the notion of science fiction as an "imaginary topos," one that draws principally on the intersection between landscape and historical/prehistorical time. Richly illustrated, this book will appeal to scholars, students and fans of science fiction and the remarkable visual culture that surrounds it.

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There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalysed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary corrects that oversight, making a powerful argument for science fiction as a visual cultural discourse. Taking influential historical works of visual art as starting points, along with illustrations, movie matte paintings, documentaries, artist's impressions and digital environments, John Timberlake focuses on the notion of science fiction as an "e;imaginary topos,"e; one that draws principally on the intersection between landscape and historical/prehistorical time. Richly illustrated, this book will appeal to scholars, students and fans of science fiction and the remarkable visual culture that surrounds it.

Autor

lt;p>John Timberlake is a senior lecturer of fine art at Middlesex University.

Inhalt

Land of Giants: Size and Scale, Mascroscopy and MicroScopy in the Landscapes of Science Fiction

John Timberlake

 

A Game in the Ruins: Landscape and Virtual Realities

John Timberlake

 

Blasted Heaths and Turbulent Energies: Chris Foss's Accelerated Dream of Wessex

John Timberlake

 

An Unforgivable Composure: The Apocalyptic Imaginary Since Yosuke Yamahata's Nagasaki

John Timberlake

 

'Suppositional Realism' and the Fictions of Science: THe Astronomical Landscapes of Pavel Klushantsev and Chesley Bonestell

John Timberlake

 

Beyond the Periphery: Desert and Darkness

John Timberlake

 

Conclusion: Otherwise Nothing Has Changed

John Timberlake

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2018
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Digital Environments • documentaries • Dystopia • historical art • Illustrations • Landscape • movie matte paintings • prehistorical time • Science Fiction • visual arts • visual discourse
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-861-9 / 1783208619
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-861-6 / 9781783208616