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Science-fiction themes used by Chicana/o writers help to express experiences in the "borderlands" such as marginalization, displacement, and alienation as well as survival and resistance. [8] In addition to expressing experiences, Chicanafuturist texts use science fiction to explore the relationship between Chicana/o identity and the border in ...
Far as Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (published 1987) is a collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, short works which originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), these being first published between November 1984 and March 1986.
The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an illustrated collection of bibliographic essays on the history and subject matter of science fiction. It was edited by Brian Ash and published in 1977 by Pan Books in the UK and Harmony/Crown Books in the US.
Science fiction can act as a vehicle to analyze and recognize a society's past, present, and potential future social relationships with the other. Science fiction offers a medium and representation of alterity and differences in social identity. [192] Brian Aldiss described science fiction as "cultural wallpaper". [193]
To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction is a collection of essays by Joanna Russ, published in 1995. [1] Many of the essays previously appeared as letters, in anthologies, or in journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, and Chrysalis. Topics range from the work of specific authors to major trends in feminism ...
Of Matters Great and Small is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the eleventh of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, although it also includes one essay from Science Digest. [1] It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1975.
A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and first published in 1985 in the Socialist Review under the title "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s."
Mulvey’s most notable work is her 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", in which she introduced the concept of gendered gaze, specifically the male gaze, to the field of film theory. [21] She argues that Hollywood films are typically structured around a primary male protagonist with whom the spectator can identify themselves with.