Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Ficiton

Marc Notes: Announced in paper at $ 39.95 period 1899-1927. Jacket Description/Back: Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners. Biographical Note: Janet Bergstrom is a professor in the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Contributor Bio:  Penley, Constance Constance Penley teaches in Film Studies and Women's Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is "NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America."Contributor Bio:  Bergstrom, Janet Janet Bergstrom is Associate Professor of Film at the University of California, Los Angeles. A founding editor of the journal "Camera Obscura", she is the author of a forthcoming book on the films of Chantal Akerman. Contributor Bio:  Spigel, Lynn Lynn Spigel is a professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (published by Duke University Press) and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Jan Olsson is a professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is a coeditor of Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930.