Sci-Why?: On the Decline of a Film Genre in an Age of Technological Wizardry.
This essay speculates about the generic ascendancy of fantasy in American popular movies and television series since the millennium--and the correspondent disenchantment and decline (although not disappearance) of science fiction. This shift to fantasy in American culture seems the result of a numbe...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 284 - 301 |
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University of California Press
Jul2014
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