Table of Contents

List of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Editor’s Preface – Introduction – History and Genre – The Modern Anglo-American SF Novel: Utopian Longing and Capitalist Co-optation – Contemporary Fantasy and the Utopian Impulse – Ideological Foreclosure and Utopian Discourse – Utopia Beyond Our Ideals: The Dilemma of the Right-Wing Utopia – Buried Treasures: Reconsidering Holberg’s Niels Klim in the World Underground – Fredric Jameson and Anti-Anti-Utopianism – A Short History of Utopian Studies – Gender and Audience – Positioning and Closure: On the “Reading Effect” of Contemporary Utopian Fiction – “So We All Became Mothers”: New Roles for Men in Recent Utopian Fiction – The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction – Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction – Beyond the Wasteland: A Feminist in Cyberspace – Violence and Utopia: John Norman and Pat Califia – Utopian Effect / Utopian Pleasure – Cinema, Space, and Technology – What Is Utopian Film? An Introductory Taxonomy – The Second Alien – Futurecop: The Neutralization of Revolt in Blade Runner – You’re History, Buddy: Postapocalyptic Visions in Recent Science Fiction Film – Urban Planning/Utopian Dreaming: Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Today – Beyond This Horizon: Utopian Visions and Utopian Practice – Bibliography – Index.