Andrew M Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew M Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Les mythes défigurés: La destruction de Londres dans les films de science-fiction post-millénaires
Cet article propose d’analyser la défiguration du mythe dans les films Le Règne du feu (2002), 28 jours plus tard (2002) et sa suite 28 semaines plus tard (2007), et Les Fils de l’Homme (2006). Ces films utilisent tous des monuments symboliques de la ville de Londres (le Palais de Westminster, le Tower Bridge, la Tate Modern, par exemple) non seulement afin de situer les lieux des événements du récit, mais également pour détruire et reconstruire …
Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 by Andrew Hammond
414 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) yelps when it stubs its toe, it must be in pain. But even a toaster can be programmed to yelp. One alternative approach considers the social context of human-robot encounters. This asks whether a particular robot that appears before us should be included in a moral community of others. It “presents a specific instance of an encounter with a particular entity—one that challenges us to think otherwise” …
Cogging-ative Estrangement
Review of Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, eds. Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016
CFP: A Clarke Odyssey: Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke (9 December 2017)
The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture, and Outer Space
“Outer space” is a curious dialectical zone—on the one hand, it consists of a number of elements (stars, planets, moons, meteors, comets, dust, actual empty space) defined as being distinct from the Earth; on the other hand, it has a repeated, daily impact on the Earth (navigation, radiation, light, tides). The apparent emptiness of much of outer space—the space of space—suggests a literalization of the ou-topia, the no place, an inky black blank…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
New Wave At-itudes
David Brittain, Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds, Manchester: Savoy Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-86130-128-7, 184pp
The Spirit of Utopia
The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London
Research Article| July 01 2013 The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London Andrew M. Butler Andrew M. Butler Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Great Britain ANDREW M. BUTLER was the coeditor, with Mark Bould, of the special issue of Science Fiction Studies on the British Boom. His article, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom” won the Pioneer Award. He has edited and coedited books on Terry Pratchett, Ch…
Evaporated Theory
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.
Legit Dick
Motor-driven metaphysics: Movement, time and action in the films of Maya Deren
In April 1959, Maya Deren gave a lecture at the Living Theater in New York entitled ‘Moving-Pictures: Motor-Driven Metaphysics’. The idea of ‘motor-driven metaphysics’ is an appropriate emblem of Deren's aesthetics, condensing several key aspects of her thought into a single concept. In common with many modernist artists and art critics, she saw the task of the artist as the fulfilment the unique potential of his or her medium. Since film as a me…
LSD, Lying Ink, and Lies, Inc
Philip K. Dick has a reputation in some circles as an acid-crazed visionary, which was more the result of his self-publicity than his particular drug habits. During the 1960s he repeatedly discussed his LSD use in fanzine articles and letters, and he incorporated it as a plot device in a novel that was to become Lies, Inc. (1983). The textual history of this novel, and its precursor version, The Unteleported Man, is a tangled one, as it exists in…
Tune In, Jack In, Drop Out
Towards a Reading List of the British Boom
Voices on the Boom
CFP: A Commonwealth of Science Fiction
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom
Various observers have suggested that there is currently a Boom in British science fiction. This article attempts to map out various contexts for understanding the Boom, including the on-going long term history of British sf, the current retreat of American science fiction, the aesthetics of the Boom, and the sense that people have been taking British sf seriously. The point is not so much to pin down the Boom as something strictly defined, but t…
British Boom Special Issue
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
British Boom Special Issue
Towards a Reading List of the British Boom
Voices on the Boom
CFP: A Commonwealth of Science Fiction
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom
Various observers have suggested that there is currently a Boom in British science fiction. This article attempts to map out various contexts for understanding the Boom, including the on-going long term history of British sf, the current retreat of American science fiction, the aesthetics of the Boom, and the sense that people have been taking British sf seriously. The point is not so much to pin down the Boom as something strictly defined, but t…
LSD, Lying Ink, and Lies, Inc
Philip K. Dick has a reputation in some circles as an acid-crazed visionary, which was more the result of his self-publicity than his particular drug habits. During the 1960s he repeatedly discussed his LSD use in fanzine articles and letters, and he incorporated it as a plot device in a novel that was to become Lies, Inc. (1983). The textual history of this novel, and its precursor version, The Unteleported Man, is a tangled one, as it exists in…
Tune In, Jack In, Drop Out
Motor-driven metaphysics: Movement, time and action in the films of Maya Deren
In April 1959, Maya Deren gave a lecture at the Living Theater in New York entitled ‘Moving-Pictures: Motor-Driven Metaphysics’. The idea of ‘motor-driven metaphysics’ is an appropriate emblem of Deren's aesthetics, condensing several key aspects of her thought into a single concept. In common with many modernist artists and art critics, she saw the task of the artist as the fulfilment the unique potential of his or her medium. Since film as a me…
Legit Dick
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.
Evaporated Theory
The Spirit of Utopia
The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London
Research Article| July 01 2013 The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London Andrew M. Butler Andrew M. Butler Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Great Britain ANDREW M. BUTLER was the coeditor, with Mark Bould, of the special issue of Science Fiction Studies on the British Boom. His article, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom” won the Pioneer Award. He has edited and coedited books on Terry Pratchett, Ch…
New Wave At-itudes
David Brittain, Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds, Manchester: Savoy Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-86130-128-7, 184pp
Cogging-ative Estrangement
Review of Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, eds. Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016
CFP: A Clarke Odyssey: Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke (9 December 2017)
The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture, and Outer Space
“Outer space” is a curious dialectical zone—on the one hand, it consists of a number of elements (stars, planets, moons, meteors, comets, dust, actual empty space) defined as being distinct from the Earth; on the other hand, it has a repeated, daily impact on the Earth (navigation, radiation, light, tides). The apparent emptiness of much of outer space—the space of space—suggests a literalization of the ou-topia, the no place, an inky black blank…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990 by Andrew Hammond
414 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) yelps when it stubs its toe, it must be in pain. But even a toaster can be programmed to yelp. One alternative approach considers the social context of human-robot encounters. This asks whether a particular robot that appears before us should be included in a moral community of others. It “presents a specific instance of an encounter with a particular entity—one that challenges us to think otherwise” …
Les mythes défigurés: La destruction de Londres dans les films de science-fiction post-millénaires
Cet article propose d’analyser la défiguration du mythe dans les films Le Règne du feu (2002), 28 jours plus tard (2002) et sa suite 28 semaines plus tard (2007), et Les Fils de l’Homme (2006). Ces films utilisent tous des monuments symboliques de la ville de Londres (le Palais de Westminster, le Tower Bridge, la Tate Modern, par exemple) non seulement afin de situer les lieux des événements du récit, mais également pour détruire et reconstruire …
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