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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.

Articles

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

Mark Bould

Virology is often confused with the invisible workings of capital.

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

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

Mark Bould

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