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Close Encounters

Film, Feminism, and Science Ficiton

Lynn Spigel editor Janet Bergstrom editor Constance Penley editor Elisabeth Lyon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Published:11th Jan '91

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Close Encounters cover

Close Encounters was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death.

Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.

ISBN: 9780816619122

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

310 pages