Representations of Women in American Science Fiction

Due to Covid-19 and campus closures, this group was unable to record. Instead, we present the script for their episode on women in science fiction. Introduction/Synopsis: The aim of this podcast is to explore and discuss the similar and different portrayals of women in a number of popular contemporary science fiction films. Caoimhe Battault presents […]

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Making Sense of the Twilight Zone

            This episode will examine the various versions of The Twilight Zone and its cultural, social, and political context in terms of the five senses. Each one of us takes a different sense as our frame. Michael will talk about the sense of smell relating to themes of autonomy and sensory illusion in the episode […]

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Science Fiction in Graphic Media

In this podcast, we will be looking at science fiction magazines, comic books and other graphic media during the mid-to-late- twentieth century, including works from Amazing Stories magazine and Galaxy Science Fiction, DC Comics, and Playboy Magazine. We will examine these texts in relation to the anxieties and issues in American society from the late […]

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National Anxieties and Science-Fiction

This podcast will explore the ways in which national anxieties are manifest in science fiction. We will examine texts from Japan, Russia and Britain. The twentieth century was a tumultuous time for these countries, and greatly impacted the relationships between them. They endured two world wars, the Cold War, and the Korean and Vietnam wars. […]

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The History and Development of American Science Fiction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Our podcast will explore the history and development of American science fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through literary analysis of both text and film, we examined what we considered to be important contributory factors to the establishment of science fiction as a distinct literary genre. We traced the development of science fiction conventions […]

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