{"id":32494,"date":"2017-08-10T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?p=32494"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:31:05","slug":"hansen-co-edits-special-issue-on-stephen-king-as-science-fiction-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/2017\/08\/10\/hansen-co-edits-special-issue-on-stephen-king-as-science-fiction-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansen Co-Edits Journal Issue on Stephen King as Science Fiction Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16120\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2011\/12\/hansen-regian-9-30-2011-1-48-34-AM-630x1330-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"Regina Hansen\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2011\/12\/hansen-regian-9-30-2011-1-48-34-AM-630x1330-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2011\/12\/hansen-regian-9-30-2011-1-48-34-AM-630x1330-485x1024.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/files\/2011\/12\/hansen-regian-9-30-2011-1-48-34-AM-630x1330.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Regina Hansen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Novelist Stephen King has a\u00a070th birthday coming up on\u00a0September 21. College of General Studies Master Lecturer of Rhetoric <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/regina-hansen\/\">Regina Hansen<\/a> has co-edited a special issue of the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/toc\/sfftv\/current\"><em>Science Fiction Film and Television <\/em><\/a>to celebrate King&#8217;s work as a science fiction writer and as \u201ca significant force in mainstream popular culture in the twenty-first century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King is known as a writer of horror\u2014the author of timeless classics like <em>The Shining, Carrie,<\/em>\u00a0<em>It<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Dark Tower <\/em>in theaters now\u00a0\u2014but Hansen and her co-editor Simon Brown point to an anecdote King tells about when he first understood that the world was a scary place. \u00a0As a child, he first understood the world&#8217;s darkness at a screening of <em>Earth vs. The Flying Saucers <\/em>when he learned that Russians had launched Sputnik.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe journey of the man whose name would become synonymous with horror began not with Lovecraft or Poe, but with Sputnik,\u201d Hansen and <strong><\/strong>Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/abs\/10.3828\/sfftv.2017.10\">write<\/a>\u00a0in the introduction to the issue. \u201cFor all King is usually discussed primarily as a gothic or horror author, we must not overlook the importance of science fiction in his work.\u201d The issue offers \u201ca series of new perspectives\u201d on King, the science fiction writer.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/abs\/10.3828\/sfftv.2017.11\">article<\/a> focuses on King\u2019s \u201cnostalgia for underdog boyhood\u201d and the way the male underdog heroes in King\u2019s <em>It <\/em>and <em>Dreamcatcher <\/em>challenge, in some ways, \u201ctraditional concepts of hegemonic masculinity.\u201d On the other hand, they assume \u201chegemonic masculinity\u201d themselves by standing up to bullies. But King\u2019s white, straight, male \u201closer hero\u201d characters achieve their hero status \u201cin part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.\u201d King\u2019s male characters may modify the cultural ideal of hegemonic masculinity, Hansen writes, but they don\u2019t transcend it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/toc\/sfftv\/current\">issue<\/a> and Hansen\u2019s essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Stephen King has a\u00a070th birthday coming up on\u00a0September 21. College of General Studies Master Lecturer of Rhetoric Regina Hansen has co-edited a special issue of the journal\u00a0Science Fiction Film and Television to celebrate King&#8217;s work as a science fiction writer and as \u201ca significant force in mainstream popular culture in the twenty-first century.\u201d King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4204,334,4209,4200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36141,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494\/revisions\/36141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}