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| ISBN | 031217439X | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | ISBN13 | 9780312174392 (What's this?) | | Pages | 235 | | Publisher | ST MARTINS PRESS (NY) /ST MARTINS PRESS (NY) | | Volumes | 001 | | Imprint | PALGRAVE | | Weight (grammes) | 545 | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1998 | | Width (mm) | 161 | | Library of Congress | 97005811 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Preface: Some Framing Questions | | | | Ch. 1 | | J. G. Ballard and the Catastrophe of Genre | | 1 | | | | Judging Science Fiction | | 4 | | | | Internal Legitimations | | 13 | | | | Reading Genre | | 25 | | | | J. G. Ballard and the Generic Law | | 28 | | Ch. 2 | | J. G. Ballard and the Genre of Catastrophe | | 37 | | | | The Imperial Subtext | | 40 | | | | From Catastrophe to Apokalupsis | | 46 | | | | 'Inner Space' | | 48 | | | | Inside and Outside the 'Jungian' Catastrophe: The Drowned World, The Crystal World | | 51 | | | | The 'Existential' Catastrophe: The Drought | | 62 | | | | Conclusion: Beyond... | | 69 | | Ch. 3 | | The Atrocity Exhibition and the Problematic of the Avant-Garde | | 73 | | | | 'Avant-Garde Science Fiction'? | | 76 | | | | Theories of the Avant-Garde | | 78 | | | | The Atrocity Exhibition as Avant-Garde Composition | | 86 | | | | Ballard and Painterly/Paranoiac Surrealism | | 90 | | | | The Atrocity Exhibition, Mass Culture, and the Neo-Avant-Garde | | 95 | | | | The Avant-Garde, Violence and the 'Feminine' | | 105 | | | | Does the Angle Between Two Walls Have a Happy Ending? | | 113 | | Ch. 4 | | Mediation, Simulation, Recalcitrance: From Crash to Hello America, With Detours | | 119 | | | | Media Stories | | 119 | | | | Crash | | 123 | | | | Supermodernity and the Uncanny | | 129 | | | | The Temporality of Future Ruins | | 138 | | | | My Re-Found Land: Hello America | | 141 | | | More... | | |
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