Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Ficiton

by Lynn Spigel and Constance Penley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816619123
• ISBN13: 9780816619122
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Theory heavy in a wonderful way

Constance Penley is one of the more theoretical writing in film studies, but that does not make her work difficult, or obscure. This is now seen as an early classic of her work, and worth every minute of reading time. A must have for anyone interested in the deeper cultural meanings of science fiction and feminism.