Lexington Books
Pages: 268
Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-66694-184-5 • Hardback • August 2024 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-66694-185-2 • eBook • September 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.
History? How the Hell Did That Happen?
by Jack Dann
Introduction
Chapter 1: Major Franchises
Chapter 2: Silver and Bronze Age Comics
Chapter 3: Postwar Fantasy Subgenres
Chapter 4: Humor from Spaceballs to Sleeper
Chapter 5: Science Fiction Tropes
Chapter 6: Alternate History
Chapter 7: The Postwar World
Chapter 8: The Emerging Israeli Genres
Conclusion
In Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors, Valerie Estelle Frankel provides a fascinating ride through some of the key texts of the era and the Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in them. Highly recommended.
— Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University, Wales and author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s is another excellent book from the wonderfully prolific author and scholar Valerie Estelle Frankel. Covering the vast ground of Jewishness and the Holocaust in speculative fiction and cinema of the crucial two decades in the US, Israel, and South America, the volume is a rich source on everything from Star Trek to Kubrick to Clarice Lispector. Both the newcomers and aficionados of the genre will find here much to learn and debate. Highly recommended.
— Marat Grinberg, Reed College