M Keith Booker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1484056 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Keith Booker |
| PRENOMES | M Keith |
| SOBRENOME | Booker |
| ASSINATURA | BOOKER M K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | ISNI: 0000000121510999 University of Arkansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5528-8967 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Don’t Worry Darling
Don’t Worry Darling features a group of men from the 2020s who retreat into a computer simulation of 1950s suburbia in which they can exert full patriarchal control over their chosen wives. Meanwhile, the real-world models on which these fantasy wives are based are forced to give up their own lives in the 2020s in order to support the simulation (via some unspecified and rather unlikely process). The film doesn’t always make sense, but it is obvi…
Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021)
Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021) is one of several recent British films that point the genre of folk horror in significant new directions. By mixing folk horror with other horror genres and with science fiction, this film veers into the territory that has recently been described as the ‘New Weird’. In so doing, it generates a complex dialogue surrounding the relationship between humans and nature. The film interrogates the different ways in whi…
The Political Form of Postmodernism
The Ministry for the Future (2020) is Kim Stanley Robinson's latest and most complex in a series of science-fiction novels that engage with the issue of climate change. It adds to Robinson's long engagement with the theoretical work of Fredric Jameson, though its polyphonic nature also rewards reading it through the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. The utopian dimension that is so important in Robinson's work has often led Jameson to see Robinson precise…
A New Expansion
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) is set in twenty-third-century Thailand, in a world in which climate change and the depletion of the oil supply have led to a collapse of the global economic system. Disease and famine are rampant. And yet, in this seemingly postapocalyptic world, there are numerous signs of hope. This text, in fact, contains strong utopian energies, driven partly by the motif of genetic engineering, which suggest the pos…
Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925)
Consumerist Orientalism
In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is explored in its relation to American culture and capitalism. Offering new insights on Edward Said’s longstanding theoretical lens, Consumerist Orientalism presents an updated conceptual framework through which to understand the intercultural relationship…
Bridging the Ontological Divide
Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925)
Alternate Americas
For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most succes…
Science Fiction Television
Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important o…
Strange TV
Discusses how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and The X-Files challenge the conventions of television programming and encourage audiences to question received ideas
Up from Bondage
The African Novel in English
Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists
Colonial Power, Colonial Texts
In Colonial Power, Colonial Texts, M. Keith Booker examines a number of British novels that deal with colonial rule in India in the first half of the twentieth century. The works discussed - by authors such as Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Paul Scott, and J. G. Farrell - date from both the colonial and postcolonial periods, and Booker pays attention as well to representations of India in both British and American popular culture,…
The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
Joyce's Iritis and the Irritated Text
Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists
Mario Vargas Llosa's work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date, little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book aims to do that, analysing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism. Booker begins with an analysis of Green House within the context of modernism, using this early work to…
Dystopian Literature
The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. This book offers a detailed study of several literary dystopias and analyzes them as social criticism. The volume begins with a discussion of utopias, dystopias, and social criticism. By drawing upon the theories of Freud, Nietzsche, and othe…
Dystopian Literature
Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal. This reference overviews dystopian theory and summarizes …
Woman on the Edge of a Genre
The intense political commitment that informs Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She, and It (1991) is not unique in dystopian fiction, a genre that lends itself to political statement and social criticism. Piercy's avowedly feminist stance is, however, relatively unusual in a genre that has traditionally been dominated by male writers and masculine concerns. Moreover, both books reinforce their political statements with inno…
Literature, Power, and Oppression in Stalinist Russia and Catholic Ireland
Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker, Literature, Power, and Oppression in Stalinist Russia and Catholic Ireland: Danilo Kiš's Use of Joyce in "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich", South Atlantic Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 39-58
Tradition, authority, and subjectivity
Strange TV
Discusses how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and The X-Files challenge the conventions of television programming and encourage audiences to question received ideas
Woman on the Edge of a Genre
The intense political commitment that informs Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She, and It (1991) is not unique in dystopian fiction, a genre that lends itself to political statement and social criticism. Piercy's avowedly feminist stance is, however, relatively unusual in a genre that has traditionally been dominated by male writers and masculine concerns. Moreover, both books reinforce their political statements with inno…
Beauty and the Beast
One of the most telling and significant passages in all of the complex fiction of Salman Rushdie occurs in his discussion of the game of Snakes and in Midnight's Children. For one thing, this passage illustrates Rushdie's ability to evoke memories of childhood with a tenderness and nostalgia that rivals a Proust or a Nabokov. For another, it shows the way in which he so effectively employs images from popular culture in the construction of his hi…
Postmodernism in Medieval England
Tradition, authority, and subjectivity
Science, Philosophy, and "The Third Policeman"
Nothing that is so is so”
Nothing that is so is so”
Literature, Power, and Oppression in Stalinist Russia and Catholic Ireland
Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker, Literature, Power, and Oppression in Stalinist Russia and Catholic Ireland: Danilo Kiš's Use of Joyce in "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich", South Atlantic Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 39-58
The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. This book offers a detailed study of several literary dystopias and analyzes them as social criticism. The volume begins with a discussion of utopias, dystopias, and social criticism. By drawing upon the theories of Freud, Nietzsche, and othe…
Dystopian Literature
Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal. This reference overviews dystopian theory and summarizes …
Woman on the Edge of a Genre
The intense political commitment that informs Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and He, She, and It (1991) is not unique in dystopian fiction, a genre that lends itself to political statement and social criticism. Piercy's avowedly feminist stance is, however, relatively unusual in a genre that has traditionally been dominated by male writers and masculine concerns. Moreover, both books reinforce their political statements with inno…
Joyce's Iritis and the Irritated Text
Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists
Mario Vargas Llosa's work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date, little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book aims to do that, analysing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism. Booker begins with an analysis of Green House within the context of modernism, using this early work to…
Dystopian Literature
Colonial Power, Colonial Texts
In Colonial Power, Colonial Texts, M. Keith Booker examines a number of British novels that deal with colonial rule in India in the first half of the twentieth century. The works discussed - by authors such as Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Paul Scott, and J. G. Farrell - date from both the colonial and postcolonial periods, and Booker pays attention as well to representations of India in both British and American popular culture,…
The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists
The African Novel in English
Up from Bondage
Strange TV
Discusses how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and The X-Files challenge the conventions of television programming and encourage audiences to question received ideas
Science Fiction Television
Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important o…
Chaka (Thomas Mofolo, South Africa, 1925)
Alternate Americas
For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most succes…
Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
Bridging the Ontological Divide
Consumerist Orientalism
In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is explored in its relation to American culture and capitalism. Offering new insights on Edward Said’s longstanding theoretical lens, Consumerist Orientalism presents an updated conceptual framework through which to understand the intercultural relationship…
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