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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.
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.
Virology is often confused with the invisible workings of capital.
The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.
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