Cityscapes of the future : : urban spaces in science fiction / / edited by Yael Maurer, Meyrav Koren-Kuik.

• Superior document: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 53
• TeilnehmendeR: Maurer, Yael,; Koren-Kuik, Meyrav,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts ; Volume 53.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction /; The City and the Body --; Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground /; Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments /; Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body /; Cities of Estrangement --; Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England’s The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster’s “The Runaway Skyscraper” /; Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace /; City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction /; Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson /; Cities of Imagination --; “Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes /; Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld /; ‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears and the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films /; Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica /; The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-fictional City as a Detective Story /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004361316
• ISSN: 1573-2193
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Yael Maurer, Meyrav Koren-Kuik.

Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.