Imagining outer space[electronic res...
Geppert, Alexander C. T., (1970-)

 

  • Imagining outer space[electronic resource] :European astroculture in the twentieth century /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 387.809409/04
    書名/作者: Imagining outer space : European astroculture in the twentieth century // edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert.
    其他作者: Geppert, Alexander C. T.,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xvii, 393 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Astronautics - Social aspects - 20th century. - Europe
    標題: Interplanetary voyages.
    標題: Space flight.
    標題: HISTORY / Europe / General.
    標題: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
    標題: HISTORY / Social History.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy.
    標題: Outer space - Exploration - 20th century. - United States
    ISBN: 9780230361362 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230361366 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references.
    內容註: Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age; A.C.T.Geppert -- PART I: NARRATING OUTER SPACE -- Space, Time and Aliens:The Role of Imagination in Outer Space; S.J.Dick -- Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908; C.Sch�mlders -- Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction; T.Brandstetter -- PART II: PROJECTING OUTER SPACE -- Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars; R.Eisfeld -- 'Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron': East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s; M.J.Neufeld -- Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness: T.B�jrnvig -- PART III: VISUALIZING OUTER SPACE -- Per Media Ad Astra?: Outer Space in West Germany's Media, 1957-87; B.Mutter -- Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips; G.de Syon -- 'A Stumble in the Dark': Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999; H.Keazor -- PART IV: ENCOUNTERING OUTER SPACE -- Life as We Don't Yet Know It: An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of 'Weird Life'; D.Battaglia -- A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-47; P.Lagrange -- Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France; J.Miller -- PART V: INSCRIBING OUTER SPACE -- Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI; G.Mu�nvar -- Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA's Pioneer Plaque, and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971-72; W.R.Macauley -- Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst's Beagle 2, Mars Lander'S Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space; T.Weddigen -- Epilogue -- Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization; P.Pocock -- Bibliography -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the current thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book's authors analyze contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examine sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research,�the�volume�breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.
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