Excavating the Future

Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television

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Shawn Malley

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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre’s archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very popular, though often critically-neglected, North American SF film and television texts–running the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters–Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries. By treating SF texts as documents of archaeological experience circulating within and between scientific and popular culture communities and media, Excavating the Future develops critical strategies for analyzing SF film and television’s critical and adaptive responses to post 9/11 geopolitical concerns about the war on terror, homeland security, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, and the ongoing fight against ISIS.

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Shawn Malley is Professor in the Department of English, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is author of 'From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845–1854' (Ashgate Press, 2012).

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April 27th, 2018

Author

Shawn Malley

Series

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

Pages

247

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9781786941190

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28250402

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