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Science fiction : the literature of the technological imagination /

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In eight 45 minute lectures, Professor Rabkin recounts the history of our encounter with technological progress.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabkin, Eric S.
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: Springfield, VA : The Teaching Company, [1994]
Series:SuperStar teachers.
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • [Tape 1] Lecture 1. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the emergence of science fiction
  • Lecture 2. Jules Verne and the popular passion for science
  • Lecture 3. H.G. Wells and science fiction parables of social criticism
  • Lecture 4. Pulp culture, World War II, and the ascendancy of American science fiction
  • [Tape 2] Lecture 5. And the winner is...Robert A. Heinlein
  • Lecture 6. Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, and the expansion of science fiction
  • Lecture 7. Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the modern science fiction film
  • Lecture 8. New wave, cyberpunk, and our science fiction world.