De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | De Witt Douglas Kilgore |
| GIVEN NAMES | De Witt Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilgore |
| SIGNATURE | KILGORE W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Afrofuturist Cinema
Afrofuturism is a term that seeks to capture how Black artists are envisioning the “not yet” of a human future divested from the delimiting effects of whiteness. This chapter emphasizes the work of Afrofuturism as a cinematic practice, arguing that while Afrofuturist filmmaking is not a coherent aesthetic, its practitioners consistently stress the role of Afrocentricity in developing science fiction’s generic potential. Suggesting the array of ap…
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation by Tom Moylan
Reviewed by: Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation by Tom Moylan De Witt Douglas Kilgore Can We Be Utopian? Tom Moylan. Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 312 pp. $120 hc, $39.95 pbk, $35.95 ebk. [End Page 576] Tom Moylan publishes his latest book at a time of widespread disquiet in Western democracy. He does not sugarcoat his judgement that we live in a …
Alexander C.T. Geppert Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo
620 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) will also be appreciated by anyone hoping to gain fresh perspectives on the works discussed within. The book is weakest in its overly ambitious and unwieldy scope. While the chapters are all individually creative and unique, it can be challenging to see their relationship beyond the very general use of the key terms, “paranoia,” “fear,” and “alienation,” and some chapters do a better job of addressing…
Willy Ley: Romantic Scientist or the Man Responsible for the Space Age
On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott
On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott De Witt Douglas Kilgore (bio) During the past two decades Kevin Willmott has occupied a unique place in independent filmmaking, as an African American writer and director. His work is guided by the idea that cinema can inform as well as entertain, illuminating our world in ways that are both unexpected and pleasurable. He believes that filmmaking can do good by…
Exploring Astroculture
Making Huckleberries: Reforming Science and Whiteness in Science in the Capital
In the novels of his Science in the Capital series, Kim Stanley Robinson explores how a United States experiencing radical climate change could produce a reform of white racial identity. This project is accomplished within a fiction dramatizing the relationship between the ordinary practice of science and its institutional position in American politics. The narrative prompts a single white-male scientist to reexamine his intellectual and social i…
Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
Special SFS issue on Octavia E. Butler for November 2010
Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre’s Parodic Astrofuturism
Although contemporary spaceflight no longer represents the cutting edge of technological or social speculation, its rhetoric of frontier, freedom, escape, and renewal remains a useful resource for writers of politically engaged fiction. Vonda N. McIntyre reworks this old rhetoric to create anti-racist feminist narratives of space exploration. I argue that the space-future narratives of her Star Trek novelizations and her Starfarer series eschew t…
Engineers' Dreams: Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, and Astrofuturism in the 1950s
World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions
In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly 100 million people visited expositions celebrating the century of progress. These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. In All the World's a Robert W. Rydell described how Victorian-era world's fairs helped create a blueprint for modern America. Now, with World of Fairs, he sh…
The Blue-and-Not-Yellow Sun
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
The Blue-and-Not-Yellow Sun
World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions
In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly 100 million people visited expositions celebrating the century of progress. These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. In All the World's a Robert W. Rydell described how Victorian-era world's fairs helped create a blueprint for modern America. Now, with World of Fairs, he sh…
Engineers' Dreams: Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, and Astrofuturism in the 1950s
Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre’s Parodic Astrofuturism
Although contemporary spaceflight no longer represents the cutting edge of technological or social speculation, its rhetoric of frontier, freedom, escape, and renewal remains a useful resource for writers of politically engaged fiction. Vonda N. McIntyre reworks this old rhetoric to create anti-racist feminist narratives of space exploration. I argue that the space-future narratives of her Star Trek novelizations and her Starfarer series eschew t…
Special SFS issue on Octavia E. Butler for November 2010
Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
Making Huckleberries: Reforming Science and Whiteness in Science in the Capital
In the novels of his Science in the Capital series, Kim Stanley Robinson explores how a United States experiencing radical climate change could produce a reform of white racial identity. This project is accomplished within a fiction dramatizing the relationship between the ordinary practice of science and its institutional position in American politics. The narrative prompts a single white-male scientist to reexamine his intellectual and social i…
Exploring Astroculture
On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott
On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott De Witt Douglas Kilgore (bio) During the past two decades Kevin Willmott has occupied a unique place in independent filmmaking, as an African American writer and director. His work is guided by the idea that cinema can inform as well as entertain, illuminating our world in ways that are both unexpected and pleasurable. He believes that filmmaking can do good by…
Willy Ley: Romantic Scientist or the Man Responsible for the Space Age
Alexander C.T. Geppert Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo
620 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) will also be appreciated by anyone hoping to gain fresh perspectives on the works discussed within. The book is weakest in its overly ambitious and unwieldy scope. While the chapters are all individually creative and unique, it can be challenging to see their relationship beyond the very general use of the key terms, “paranoia,” “fear,” and “alienation,” and some chapters do a better job of addressing…
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation by Tom Moylan
Reviewed by: Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation by Tom Moylan De Witt Douglas Kilgore Can We Be Utopian? Tom Moylan. Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 312 pp. $120 hc, $39.95 pbk, $35.95 ebk. [End Page 576] Tom Moylan publishes his latest book at a time of widespread disquiet in Western democracy. He does not sugarcoat his judgement that we live in a …
Afrofuturist Cinema
Afrofuturism is a term that seeks to capture how Black artists are envisioning the “not yet” of a human future divested from the delimiting effects of whiteness. This chapter emphasizes the work of Afrofuturism as a cinematic practice, arguing that while Afrofuturist filmmaking is not a coherent aesthetic, its practitioners consistently stress the role of Afrocentricity in developing science fiction’s generic potential. Suggesting the array of ap…
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