Between Science and Society by Douglas A Van Belle
In Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction, Douglas A. Van Belle uses interviews with 24 science fiction authors to analyze the conceptual space that science fiction occupies between science and society. Using these interviews, Van Belle studies the similarities and differences between the academic and professional understandings of the genre. Between Science and Society arguesthat, for authors, all of the aspects of the genre that are emphasized by academics, such as science communication and depictions of scientists, are secondary to the artistic effort to entertain through storytelling. Through his interviews, Van Belle explores both the genre's place in relation to science and society and key elements to surviving as a professional science fiction author. Van Belle creates a definition of science fiction based on the creative ideals expressed by these authors and compared to those that arise from the academic perspective, showing that academics are struggling to engage one of the two central ideals of the genre.-
Defenses Against the Dark Arts
- Shakespeare and Politics in Film Adaptations
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Philosophical Perspective on Cinema
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Flannery OConnor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness
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From Ideology to Nostalgia
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Dark Places
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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin
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Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation
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Filming the First
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Film and Faith
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The Architecture of Survival
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Age of Anxiety
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American Epic
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The Final Frontier
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Promoting Postcolonial Australia
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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education
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The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction
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Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
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The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion
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The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
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Why Moralize upon It?
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Popular Culture and Foreign Policy
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The United States Constitution in Film
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Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
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Rabelais's Contempt for Fortune
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Updike and Politics
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Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges
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The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
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Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand
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Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition
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AIDS-Trauma and Politics
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Wicked Leadership in Film
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Aldous Huxley
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A Prophet of Modern Delusions
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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
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The Limits of Politics
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Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
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Mad Men
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Milton's Socratic Rationalism
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Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda
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Out of a Gray Fog
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Game of Thrones and the Theories of International Relations
Douglas A. Van Belle is a senior lecturer in media studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781793605733 |
| ISBN 10 | 1793605734 |
| Title | Between Science and Society |
| Author | Douglas A Van Belle |
| Series | Politics Literature And Film Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Year published | 2020-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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