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 […]

Bigger on the Inside: Critically Analysing Doctor Who

First produced by the BBC in 1963, Doctor Who remains one of the most popular science fiction series on television. During his time as showrunner (2005-2010), Russell T. Davies analysed several anxieties and political issues of the contemporary world. Silvia will analyse how this is achieved by connecting the 2007 Master Trilogy to certain fears […]

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. […]

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 […]

The Representation of Female Superheroes in Film

In recent decades, in relation to the science fiction genre, there has been a rapid increase in popularity in the superhero film. However, along with many of these films, come gender issues in relation to their female superhero roles. In this podcast episode, we will discuss the lack of purpose, attention, and science/technology behind the […]