عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T529
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space, and the Body Politic in the Science Fiction City
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor:Milburn, Colin; Shershow, Scott
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California: United States -- California
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
144 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In this project, I will explore the trope of city as body--the body politic--in a diverse array of seminal texts in science fiction literature, films, and critical essays. I choose science fiction (SF) because it provides the kinds of imagery and topos unique to the genre that allow us to examine the kinds of attitudes and assumptions that undergird the metaphor of the city as body and allow it to circulate and function as a social discourse. For instance, a present-day metropolis with components that are completely intertwined with digital technologies like satellites, cell phone towers, and video surveillance systems doesn't necessarily resemble the idealized "master body" of antiquity. What this city does resemble, however, is the figure of the science fiction cyborg, a hybrid body of human and machine. In fact, today's cities look less and less like the traditional idealized human body: the sense of estrangement and vertigo that comes with our digital and globalized age is described better by the alien cities of SF and the alien bodies that occupy these urban spaces. SF cities offer us new models of the body politic that we can recognize in our daily lives, not in spite of their strangeness but because of it--tropes that we cannot find in texts of straightforward narrative realism.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Modern literature
Canadian literature
American literature
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
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Language
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literature and linguistics
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Globalization
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Urban image
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Body politic
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City
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Cosmopolitianism
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Science fiction
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Tran, Julie Ha
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Milburn, Colin; Shershow, Scott, supervisor
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TL529.pdf
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