{"product_id":"fantastic-cities-american-urban-spaces-in-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-paperback","title":"Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStefan Rabitsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Fuchs\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStefan L. Brandt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City--American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities\u003c\/i\u003e builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel \u003ci\u003eZone One\u003c\/i\u003e, the vampire films \u003ci\u003eOnly Lovers Left Alive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic \u003ci\u003eDhalgren\u003c\/i\u003e. Together, the contributions in \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate that the fantastic is able to \"real-ize\" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and\/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Rabitsch\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of American studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is author of \u003ci\u003e\"Star Trek\" and the British Age of Sail: The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSet Phasers to Teach! \"Star Trek\" in Research and Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of \"Star Trek\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003eMichael Fuchs\u003c\/b\u003e is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eIntermedia Games--Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePlacing America: American Culture and Its Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eStefan L. Brandt \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of American studies at the University of Graz in Austria. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e1960 \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEcomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpace Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMaking\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNational Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-)Revolutionary America\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTransnational American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160179773575,"sku":"9781496836632","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d12badc0913bfba4709f2149eff07dd9.webp?v=1733272258","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/fantastic-cities-american-urban-spaces-in-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}