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Mark Bould

Mark Bould teaches Film Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and is author of Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook. He coedits the journal Science Fiction Film and Television.

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Arts in Society

The Virus Has Seized the Means of Production

In films such as Contagion, virology is often confused with the invisible workings of capital.

Mark Bould

Arts in Society

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

Mark Bould

Arts in Society

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

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