Alien Zone subject-architecture-cities Critical without being sectarian

Critical without being sectarian

Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers

Georg Lukcs

• How Al Gore plotted to stop Democrats from recapturing Congress in 1996 in order to keep his rival Dick Gephard from becoming Speaker of the House

With formidable scholarship and considerable dry wit

Alien Zone subject-architecture-cities Critical without being sectarianThis is especially true of the science fiction filma genre as old as cinema itselfwhich has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so called womans film. Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this booksome newly written, others