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Title: Other Europes

Other Europes

Science Fiction Cinema Beyond the Anglosphere

by Débora Madrid (Volume editor) Antonio Cordoba (Volume editor)
©2026 Monographs X, 384 Pages
The Arts
Series: World Science Fiction Studies, Volume 4

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Summary

This volume analyzes how science fiction tropes are used by non-Anglophone European filmmakers to explore national and global issues. The essays participate in the increasingly productive scholarly discussion of how speculative aesthetics helps us understand our present and envision possible futures. They explore how science fiction films from these societies tackle a wide range of modern and contemporary topics, from the actual possibility of human-made planetary apocalypse to the tension of the Cold War, outer space exploration, new discourses on colonialism, gender and sexualities, formulation of new transhumanist and posthumanist identities, and more. The films analyzed in this volume come from more than a dozen European countries and were produced from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Details

Pages
X, 384
Publication Year
2026
ISBN (Softcover)
9781803744100
Language
English
Keywords
Science Fiction Science Fiction Cinema beyond the Anglosphere Other Europes Débora Madrid Antonio Córdoba Science Fiction Studies Film Studies Non-Anglophone European Cinema European Cinema Science Fiction Film
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2026. x, 384 pp., 10 fig. b/w.
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Biographical notes

Débora Madrid (Volume editor) Antonio Cordoba (Volume editor)

Débora Madrid is Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Universidad de La Laguna (Spain). Her research interests include science fiction film, Spanish film, contemporary art and visual culture. She is also the author of the monograph Creaciones (In)humanas. Alteraciones y suplantaciones del ser humano en el cine español (2023). Antonio Córdoba is a teacher of Spanish as a second language and Spanish and Latin American cultures. He was previously a professor of Iberian and Latin American studies and has published on Latin American modern and contemporary literature, Utopian studies, the fantastic, and science fiction. His most recent book is the co-edited collection Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction (2023).

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