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Kagan, Norman

(1943-    ) US film researcher and author whose occasional sf stories – from "The Mathenauts" for If in July 1964 through "Counter Ecology" (in Tomorrow Today, anth 1975, ed George Zebrowski) – have sometimes dealt vigorously and amusingly with Mathematics as a subject, and tend to feature extroverted mathematicians as protagonists in Cold War contexts. Kagan also wrote The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (1972; exp 1989) In a letter to the editor (Summer 1984 SF Review [see Richard E Geis]), Kagan presented a "unified genres theory" based on the tragic/heroic mode, the moralizing mode and the comic/ironic mode, though he does not present any argument as to how these modes interact. [JC/MA]

see also: Dimensions; Fantastic Voyages.

Norman Kagan

born 1943

works

nonfiction

• The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972) [nonfiction: Stanley Kubrick: hb/]
  • The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (New York: Continuum, 1989) [nonfiction: exp of the above: Stanley Kubrick: pb/]
    • The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (New York: Continuum, 2000) [nonfiction: exp of the above: Stanley Kubrick: pb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 13:49 pm on 26 April 2024.
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