This book provides critical analysis and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, films, television shows, and video games.
This book provides critical analysis and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, films, television shows, and video games.
Graham J. Murphy is Professor with the School of English and Liberal Studies (Faculty of Business) at Seneca College (Toronto). He co-edited Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives with Sherryl Vint (2010), co-authored Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion with Susan M. Bernardo (2006), and authored several articles that have appeared in numerous anthologies and peer-review journals. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and sits on the editorial advisory boards of both Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation. Lars Schmeink is Professor of Media Studies at the Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement, Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg) and is currently the president of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (Association for Research in the Fantastic). He is the German section editor for media in the Open Library of the Humanities, the author of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), and has published in Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television and Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts.
Inhaltsangabe
Scott Bukatman Foreword: Cyberpunk and its Visual Vicissitudes Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink Introduction: The Visuality and Virtuality of Cyberpunk I: "Image/Text Concatenations"; or, From Literary to Visual Cyberpunk (and back again) 1. Christian Hviid Mortensen Beyond the Heroics of Gonzo-Journalism in Transmetropolitan 2. Timothy Wilcox Embodying Failures of the Imagination: Defending the Posthuman in The Surrogates 3. Graham J. Murphy Cyberpunk Urbanism and Subnatural Bugs in BOOM! Studios' Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4. Stina Attebery and Josh Pearson "Today's Cyborg is Stylish": The Humanity Cost of Posthuman Fashion in Cyberpunk 2020 5. Pawel Frelik "Silhouettes of Strange Illuminated Mannequins": Cyberpunk's Incarnations of Light II: "Tactics of Visualization"; or, From Visual to Virtual Cyberpunk (and back again) 6. Christopher McGunnigle "My Targeting System is a Little Messed Up": The Cyborg Gaze in the RoboCop Media Franchise 7. Ryan J. Cox Kusanagi's Body: Dualism and the Performance of Identity in Ghost in the Shell and Stand Alone Complex 8. Mark R. Johnson The History of Cyberspace Aesthetics in Video Games 9. Stephen Joyce Playing for Virtually Real: Cyberpunk Aesthetics and Ethics in Deus Ex: Human Revolution 10. Jenna Ng and Jamie Macdonald "We Are Data": The Cyberpunk Imaginary of Data Worlds in Watch Dogs III: "Emerging World Orders"; or, Cyberpunk as Science Fiction Realism 11. Evan Torner 1980s German Cyberpunk Cinema: Kamikaze 1989 and Nuclearvision 12. Mark Bould Afrocyberpunk Cinema: The Postcolony Finds its own Use for Things 13. Anna McFarlane Cyberpunk and "Science Fiction Realism" in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and Zero Dark Thirty 14. Sherryl Vint Cyberwar: The Convergence of Virtual and Material Battlefields in Cyberpunk Cinema 15. Lars Schmeink Afterthoughts: Cyberpunk Engagements with Countervisuality
Scott Bukatman Foreword: Cyberpunk and its Visual Vicissitudes Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink Introduction: The Visuality and Virtuality of Cyberpunk I: "Image/Text Concatenations"; or, From Literary to Visual Cyberpunk (and back again) 1. Christian Hviid Mortensen Beyond the Heroics of Gonzo-Journalism in Transmetropolitan 2. Timothy Wilcox Embodying Failures of the Imagination: Defending the Posthuman in The Surrogates 3. Graham J. Murphy Cyberpunk Urbanism and Subnatural Bugs in BOOM! Studios' Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4. Stina Attebery and Josh Pearson "Today's Cyborg is Stylish": The Humanity Cost of Posthuman Fashion in Cyberpunk 2020 5. Pawel Frelik "Silhouettes of Strange Illuminated Mannequins": Cyberpunk's Incarnations of Light II: "Tactics of Visualization"; or, From Visual to Virtual Cyberpunk (and back again) 6. Christopher McGunnigle "My Targeting System is a Little Messed Up": The Cyborg Gaze in the RoboCop Media Franchise 7. Ryan J. Cox Kusanagi's Body: Dualism and the Performance of Identity in Ghost in the Shell and Stand Alone Complex 8. Mark R. Johnson The History of Cyberspace Aesthetics in Video Games 9. Stephen Joyce Playing for Virtually Real: Cyberpunk Aesthetics and Ethics in Deus Ex: Human Revolution 10. Jenna Ng and Jamie Macdonald "We Are Data": The Cyberpunk Imaginary of Data Worlds in Watch Dogs III: "Emerging World Orders"; or, Cyberpunk as Science Fiction Realism 11. Evan Torner 1980s German Cyberpunk Cinema: Kamikaze 1989 and Nuclearvision 12. Mark Bould Afrocyberpunk Cinema: The Postcolony Finds its own Use for Things 13. Anna McFarlane Cyberpunk and "Science Fiction Realism" in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and Zero Dark Thirty 14. Sherryl Vint Cyberwar: The Convergence of Virtual and Material Battlefields in Cyberpunk Cinema 15. Lars Schmeink Afterthoughts: Cyberpunk Engagements with Countervisuality
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
