{"product_id":"9781496836632-fantastic-cities","title":"Fantastic Cities","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities\u003c\/i\u003e builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel \u003ci\u003eZone One\u003c\/i\u003e, the vampire films \u003ci\u003eOnly Lovers Left Alive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic \u003ci\u003eDhalgren\u003c\/i\u003e. Together, the contributions in \u003ci\u003eFantastic Cities\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate that the fantastic is able to \"real-ize\" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and\/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39803668889697,"sku":"9781496836632","price":43.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/a986343614d4561e9e1f720e1e8e6f88.jpg?v=1644134702","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496836632-fantastic-cities","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}