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Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics : From to Cyrano Barbarella Edited by Philippe Mather and Sylvain Rheault Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics: From Cyrano to Barbarella Edited by Philippe Mather and Sylvain Rheault This book first published 2015 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2015 by Philippe Mather, Sylvain Rheault and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8676-9 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8676-5 To my wife Angeline. —Philippe Mather In Memory of my mother and my father. —Sylvain Rheault In Memory of George Slusser (1939-2014). "The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out from underneath the mushrooms, while making singular contortions. These are the Selenites, or inhabitants of the Moon. A fantastical being rushes on an astronomer, who defends himself, and with a stroke of his umbrella the Selenite bursts into a thousand pieces.” —From “Le Voyage dans la Lune” by Georges Méliès. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ........................................................................................................ xi Acknowledgements .................................................................................. xiii Part I: French Proto Science Fiction in Literature Introduction................................................................................................. 3 French Proto-SF in its Scientific and Literary Context George Slusser Chapter One ................................................................................................11 How Do I Know Unless I Go There? Cyranian Thought Experiment as Scientific Method and Scientific Fiction Ari Margolin Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 21 The Filiation from Cyrano to Verne: An Exacting Poetics that Birthed French Science Fiction Lionel Philipps Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 41 Flying the Colonial Skies during the French Enlightenment Scott Sanders Part II: Modern French Science Fiction in Literature Introduction ............................................................................................... 65 Modern French SF in its Cultural and Literary Context George Slusser Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 75 Science Fiction as Science: The Case of S. S. Held’s La Mort du Fer (1931) Fred Waage viii Table of Contents Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 87 The Transfigured Epic in René Barjavel’s Body of Work Élisabeth Stojanov Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 99 The Challenge of the Invisible in Maurice Renard’s The Blue Peril Lia Mitchell Chapter Seven ........................................................................................... 111 The Generic Shift of Jacques Spitz: Towards Science Fiction Patrick Guay Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 125 Writing Science Fiction in French Élisabeth Vonarburg Part III: French Science Fiction in Cinema and Graphic Novels Introduction ............................................................................................. 133 French Science Fiction Cinema and Graphic Novels Philippe Mather and Sylvain Rheault Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 143 A Brief Typology of French Science Fiction Film Philippe Mather Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 161 Cartesian Dualism and the Orgasmatron: Interiority and Eroticism in Barbarella Mazin Saffou Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 173 The Dualistic Traditions of American Film Noir and French Science Fiction in Christian Volckman’s Renaissance: Paris 2054 Kirsten Bligh Chapter Twelve ........................................................................................ 185 Métal Hurlant: First French Science Fiction Comic Magazine Alexandra Rolland Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics ix Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 199 Cartoon Robots Versus France (1945-1980) Sylvain Rheault Contributors ............................................................................................. 213 Index ........................................................................................................ 217
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