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This site has moved to: https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Franco Brambilla, “Invading the Villa” (2009)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0This website accompanies
\nItal. 2500: “World Science Fiction”
\nProf. Arielle Saiber<\/a>
\nBowdoin College<\/a>
\nSpring 2015, Spring 2020, Spring 2022<\/h5>\n

This course explores the local, global, and universal natures of the speculative genre of science fiction (SF) from the early twentieth century through the present. It highlights works from the Golden Age (late 1930s-\u201950s), the New Wave of the 1960s and \u201970s, cyberpunk in the 1980s, and today\u2019s various sub-genres and cross-over incarnations. We will approach the genre as a mode of thought-experimentation and world-building that problematizes actual and possible political, cultural, natural, human, and techno-scientific realities. Among the themes included are the human-machine interface, environmental apocalypse, the alien, and time travel.<\/p>\n

Readings\/viewings include short stories from nearly every continent, short films and tv episodes, visual art, journalism, and literary criticism.<\/p>\n

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With thanks to:<\/em>
\n–Franco Brambilla<\/a> for permission to use his artwork
\n-David Israel, Information Technology at Bowdoin
\n-Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14), Research Assistant
\n-Raisa Tolchinsky (Bowdoin, ’17), Research Assistant
\n-Bradford Dudley (Bowdoin, ’22)<\/p>\n

Questions or suggestions may be sent to\u00a0Arielle Saiber<\/a>: asaiber@bowdoin.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"20-hajime-sorayama\"<\/p>\n

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\nThe information on this website is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0<\/a>.
\nThe images are \u00a9 Franco Brambilla<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nHow to Cite:<\/strong>
\nArielle Saiber, World Science Fiction Course<\/em>, Bowdoin College (2015, 2020)
\nhttps:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/ital-2500-spring-2015\/\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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