Steaming into a Victorian Future

A Steampunk Anthology
Herausgeber: Miller, Cynthia J.; Taddeo, Julie Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on-and interrelationship with-popular culture and the wider society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780810893153
• ISBN-10: 0810893150
• Artikelnr.: 40188039

Autorenporträt

Julie Anne Taddeo teaches British History at University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (2002), co-editor of The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History (2009), and editor of Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History (2012). Cynthia J. Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. She is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Scarecrow, 2012) and coeditor of 1950s "Rocketman" TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (2012) and Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (Scarecrow, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel
Catherine Siemann Chapter 2: Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in
the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest Mike Perschon
Chapter 3: Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian
Femininity Julie Anne Taddeo Chapter 4: Love and the Machine: Technology
and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica Dru Pagliassotti
Chapter 5: "Anything is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey, with
a Monocle:" Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental's The Indifference
Engine Jamieson Ridenhour Chapter 6: "In sum, evil has prevailed": The
Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic
Marauder Erika Behrisch Elce Chapter 7: "Fulminations and Fulgurators":
Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema John C. Tibbetts Chapter 8:
Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers Cynthia J.
Miller Chapter 9: Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and
Future in Steampunk Suzanne Barber and Matt Hale Chapter 10: Objectified
and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk
Subculture Diana M. Pho Chapter 11: "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory":
Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future Sally-Anne Huxtable
Chapter 12: Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the
History of Technology in Society Amy Sue Bix Chapter 13: Remaking the
World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Chapter 14: Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of
Yesterday Jeanette Atkinson Afterword