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Close Encounters was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death. Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.
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Critical interpretations of science fiction are rare, especially science fiction as represented in film, television and other nonliterary media, and this book aims to fill this void. Ranging from historical analysis and interpretation to psychoanalytic analyses common in film study, and from avant-garde films to television sitcoms, the volume addresses science fiction thematically in terms of what the editors call "sexual difference". Historically, science fiction has been concerned with problems of difference - human and nonhuman as well as male and female. It has also constructed new categories of masculinity and femininity through the shifting, ambiguous and contradictory sexual status it assigns in the more unusual, genre-specific contexts, such as encounters with a sexual aliens, robots or androids. This volume aims to demonstrate the last decade's reworking of semiology, psychoanlysis and reception theory by feminist media theorists as they have contributed to the understanding of these new worlds.
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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.
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- PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0816619123
- ISBN 13 9780816619122
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages310
- EditorPenley Constance, Lyon Elisabeth, Spigel Lynn, Bergstrom Janet
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