{"title":"Orphan Black as protest: A symposium on Orphan Black","authors":"Everett Hamner","doi":"10.3828/SFFTV.2018.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"359 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47081776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living in the future","authors":"G. Canavan","doi":"10.3828/SFFTV.2018.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"491 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46716522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging capitalism: Ethics, exploitation and the sublime in Moon and Source Code","authors":"Catherine Constable","doi":"10.3828/SFFTV.2018.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.25","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper is the first academic article to offer a detailed analysis of two of Duncan Jones's sf films: Moon and Source Code. The readings explore the films' complex philosophical themes, focusing on ethics, specifically utilitarianism, and the aesthetics of the sublime. Both discourses inform the films' presentation of technology and labour within futuristic forms of late capitalism. Drawing links between the two films emphasises their shared themes of exploitation, suffering and resistance. This enables an appreciation of the complexities of Moon and provides a new way of reading Source Code, focusing on the interplay between the film's different realities rather than privileging the virtual space of the train. While the films utilise the aesthetics of the sublime, my readings will trace the ways in which they close down the possibility of transcendence, thereby relocating resistance to the system within different types of replication and repetition.","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"417 - 448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42436263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/sfftv.2018.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78939118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating humanity: Anthropomorphic robots in the Swedish television series Real Humans","authors":"J. Hallqvist","doi":"10.3828/SFFTV.2018.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.26","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I analyse the renegotiations and re-establishments of borders between humans and hubots (humanoid robots) in the Swedish sf television series Äkta människor (Real Humans) through the concepts of trans-corporeality and recyclability, where the concept of being 'recyclable' prompts questions of life and death. The use of anthropomorphism and the recyclability of the characters paradoxically articulates sameness while referring to differences, and it suggests that humans and hubots are entangled and always composed, decomposed and recomposed by, and into, other bodies. This might have practical implications for modern society in terms of ethics and rights for anthropomorphic robots.","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"449 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/SFFTV.2018.26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45412314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and women in sf","authors":"M. Bould, S. Vint","doi":"10.3828/sfftv.2018.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"153 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/sfftv.2018.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49646527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture ed. by Elyce Rae Helford et al (review)","authors":"R. Reid","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"A lthough the last three decades have offered a growing body of scholarship on images of fantastic women in popular culture, these studies either tend to focus on one particular variety of fantastic female (the action or sci-fi heroine), or on her role in a specific genre (villain, hero, temptress). This edited collection strives to define the “Woman Fantastic” more fully. The Woman Fantastic may appear in speculative or realist settings, but her presence is always recognizable. Through futuristic contexts, fantasy worlds, alternate histories, or the display of superpowers, these insuperable women challenge the laws of physics, chemistry, and/or biology. In chapters devoted to certain television programs, adult and young adult literature, and comics, contributors discuss feminist negotiation of today’s economic and social realities. Senior scholars and rising academic stars offer compelling analyses of fantastic women from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series to Cinda Williams Chima’s The Seven Realms series; and from Battlestar Gallactica’s female Starbuck to Game of Thrones’ Sansa and even Elaine Barrish Hammond of USA’s Political Animals. This volume furnishes an important contribution to ongoing discussions of gender and feminism in popular culture.","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":"341 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49158029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Hail, Mary, the Mother of Science Fiction’","authors":"Megen de Bruin-Molé","doi":"10.3828/sfftv.2018.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69946767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archive","authors":"L. Szwydky, Michelle L. Pribbernow","doi":"10.3828/sfftv.2018.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42550,"journal":{"name":"Science Fiction Film and Television","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69946770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}