Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- I Introduction: Science Fiction Double Feature
- 1 From “Multiverse” to “Abramsverse”: Blade Runner, Star Trek, Multiplicity, and the Authorizing of Cult//SF Worlds
- 2 The Coy Cult Text: The Man Who Wasn't There as Noir SF
- 3 “It's Alive!”: The Splattering of SF Films
- 4 Sean Connery Reconfigured: From Bond to Cult Science Fiction Figure
- 5 The Cult Film as Affective Technology: Anime and Oshii Mamoru's Innocence
- 6 Whedon, Browncoats, and the Big Damn Narrative: The Unified Meta-myth of Firefly and Serenity
- 7 Iron Sky's War Bonds: Cult Sf Cinema and Crowdsourcing
- 8 Transnational Interactions: District 9, or Apaches in Johannesburg
- 9 A Donut for Tom Paris: Identity and Belonging at European SF/Fantasy Conventions
- 10 Robot Monster and the “Watchable … Terrible” Cult/SF Film
- 11 Science Fiction and the Cult of Ed Wood: Glen or Glenda?, Bride of the Monster, and Plan 9 from Outer Space
- 12 Visual Pleasure, the Cult, and Paracinema
- 13 “Lack of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure to Obey Authority”: Dark Star, a Boy and His Dog, and New Wave Cult SF
- 14 Capitalism, Camp, and Cult SF: Space Truckers as Satire
- 15 Bubba Ho-tep and the Seriously Silly Cult Film
- A Select Cult/SF Bibliography
- A Select Cult SF Filmography
- Index
Notes on Contributors
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- I Introduction: Science Fiction Double Feature
- 1 From “Multiverse” to “Abramsverse”: Blade Runner, Star Trek, Multiplicity, and the Authorizing of Cult//SF Worlds
- 2 The Coy Cult Text: The Man Who Wasn't There as Noir SF
- 3 “It's Alive!”: The Splattering of SF Films
- 4 Sean Connery Reconfigured: From Bond to Cult Science Fiction Figure
- 5 The Cult Film as Affective Technology: Anime and Oshii Mamoru's Innocence
- 6 Whedon, Browncoats, and the Big Damn Narrative: The Unified Meta-myth of Firefly and Serenity
- 7 Iron Sky's War Bonds: Cult Sf Cinema and Crowdsourcing
- 8 Transnational Interactions: District 9, or Apaches in Johannesburg
- 9 A Donut for Tom Paris: Identity and Belonging at European SF/Fantasy Conventions
- 10 Robot Monster and the “Watchable … Terrible” Cult/SF Film
- 11 Science Fiction and the Cult of Ed Wood: Glen or Glenda?, Bride of the Monster, and Plan 9 from Outer Space
- 12 Visual Pleasure, the Cult, and Paracinema
- 13 “Lack of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure to Obey Authority”: Dark Star, a Boy and His Dog, and New Wave Cult SF
- 14 Capitalism, Camp, and Cult SF: Space Truckers as Satire
- 15 Bubba Ho-tep and the Seriously Silly Cult Film
- A Select Cult/SF Bibliography
- A Select Cult SF Filmography
- Index
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- Science Fiction Double FeatureThe Science Fiction Film as Cult Text, pp. x - xivPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2015