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Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.

 

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television. We publish work that situates texts, practices and institutions within broader national, historical, cultural, theoretical and critical contexts. In addition to popular and contemporary works, we are interested in articles which consider critically neglected texts and traditions, propose innovative ways of looking at canonical texts, or explore the tensions and synergies that emerge from the interaction of genre and medium. We encourage work that considers the specificities of the genre and medium, the science-fictionality of media technologies and forms themselves, and the relationships between globalisation, transnationalism, media convergence and sf.

 

SFFTV 2.1 (2009)

Contents

 

Articles

Downloading Doppelgängers: new media anxieties and transnational ironies in Battlestar Galactica

Mark A. McCutcheon

 

Starship Troopers, the War on Terror and the Spectacle of Censorship

Paul Williams

 

Three Versions of Komatsu Saykō’s Nihon chinbotsu (Japan Sinks)

Jessica Langer

 

Hybrid Stories: Examining the future of transmedia narrative

Tom Abba

 

Archive

Terence Fisher and British Science Fiction Cinema

Robert Shail

 

Regimes of Truth, Disciplined Bodies, Secured Populations: An Overview of Michel Foucault

Catherine Chaput

 

Review article

Gaming the System: Peter Watkins’ The Gladiators and Punishment Park

John R. Cook

 

 

Book reviews

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Fear. Sherryl Vint

William Beard, The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg. Michael Grant

Joshua David Bellin, Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation. Cynthia Erb

Peter Lev, The Fifties: Transforming the Screen 1950–1959. M. Keith Booker

Akira Mizuta Lippit, Atomic Light (Shadow Optics). Takayuki Tatsumi

Ernest Mathijs, ed. The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context. Paul Grainge

Kirsten Ostherr, Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health. Lisa Yaszek

Carl Silvio and Tony M. Vinci, eds, Culture, Identities, and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies. C. Jason Smith

Kirsten Moana Thompson, Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium. Sean Redmond

Paul Young, The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet. Richard J. Hand

 

DVD reviews

Les Maîtres du temps (René Laloux France/Switzerland/West Germany/UK/Hungary 1982).

Gandahar (René Laloux France/North Korea 1988).

Paul Wells

 

Sins of the Fleshapoids (Kuchar US 1965).

Carlos Kase

 

Spione (Spies; Fritz Lang Germany 1928).

Iris Luppa

 

Sunshine (Danny Boyle UK/US 2007).

Adam Roberts

 

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