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Steampunk film : a critical introduction / by McAllister, Robbie

Table of Contents: “…Steampunk goes to the movies: the birth of a genre -- Re-engineered and repurposed: Steampunk as adaptation -- Dreams of steam: nostalgia for an age of imagined industry -- Historical identities: representation in the Steampunk Empire -- Clockwork modernities: tinkering with time in a Steampunk age -- Gearing down: making the past present in Steampunk cinema…”
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The Steampunk User's Manual : an Illustrated Practical and Whimsical Guide to Creating Retro-futurist Dreams. by VanderMeer, Jeff

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Why steampunk? ; Basics about the creative process -- Steampunk art and making : "Old hat"?…”
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Steaming into a Victorian future : a steampunk anthology /

Table of Contents: “…REIMAGINING CHARACTERS/RECONFIGURING RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel; Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest; Chapter 3. …”
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Clockwork rhetoric : the language and style of steampunk /

Table of Contents: “…The rhetoric of Steampunk / Barry Brummett -- A rhetoric of Steam / David Beard -- "There is hope for the future" : the (dis)enchantment of the technician-hero in Steampunk / Mirko M. …”
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Like clockwork : steampunk pasts, presents, and futures /

Table of Contents: “…It's about time: reading steampunk's rise and roots / Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall -- Steampunk spaces and things. …”
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Neo-Victorian Families. : Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics. by Kohlke, Marie-Luise

Subjects: “…Steampunk culture.…”
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Uchronie Ungeschehene Geschichte von der Antike bis zum Steampunk by Dillinger, Johannes, Dillinger, Johannes

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Ada's legacy: cultures of computing from the victorian to the digital age by Hammerman, Robin, Russell, Andrew L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Ada bright and dark: steampunk representations of the enchantress of numbers / Catherine Siemann -- pt. …”
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Five weeks in a balloon : a journey of discovery by three Englishmen in Africa by Verne, Jules, 1828-1905

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Pretense design : surface over substance by Mollerup, Per, 1942-

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Fashion talks : undressing the power of style

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Neo-Victorianism and the memory of empire by Ho, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…"Far-Flung" Neo-Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo-Victorian FilmsAnother "Island Story"; Smoke and Mirrors: The Opium War in Hong Kong Texts; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan I: "Born in Hong Kong"; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan II: Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and the Chinese Diaspora; Chapter 5; Neo-Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk"; Steampunk: An Orientation; Empires: The Difference Engine and The Diamond Age; Steamboy: Japan's Victorian Past; Around the World Again; Chapter 6; The Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Toward a Global Memory of the Victorian.…”
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The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture : Pop Goth. by Edwards, Justin

Table of Contents: “…8 Spectral Liturgy: Transgression, Ritual and Music in Gothic9 Under Their Own Steam: Magic, Science and Steampunk; 10 ""'Boo!' to Taboo"": Gothic Performance at British Festivals; 11 ""Forget Nu Rave, We're into Nu Grave!""…”
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Fashion talks : undressing the power of style

Table of Contents: “…Heiliger -- The lady is a vamp: Cruella de Vil and the cultural politics of fur / Catherine Spooner -- Something borrowed, something blue: what's an indie bride to do? / Elline Lipkin -- Steampunk: stylish subversion and colonial chic / Diana M. …”

Digital humanities : history and development by Le Deuff, Olivier

Table of Contents: “…The Republics of Letters: the Need to Communicate and Exchange -- The Science of Writings and Documentation -- From Lists to Tables, the Question of Indexing -- The Need to Find Information -- The Researcher's Workstation and the History of Hypertexts -- The Quantitative Leap: Social Sciences and Statistics -- Automatic Processing: Concordances, Occurrences and Other Interpretation and Visualization Matrices -- Metadata Systems -- The New Metrics: From Scientometrics to Webometrics -- The Map: More than the Territory -- Conclusion: A Steampunk History and an Archaeology of the (New) Media.…”
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Lantern City Vol. 1. by Crafts, Trevor

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Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines. by Brito, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Creating a studio environmentAdding light to the scene; How YafaRay works; Setting lights in YafaRay; Adding materials to the weapon; Framing the weapon; Final render with YafaRay; Summary; 6. Steampunk Spacecraft; Steampunk concept; Spacecraft concept; Project workflow; Building edges and planes for the spacecraft; Creating the first section of the spacecraft; Modeling the wing; Modeling the front; Summary; 7. …”
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Encyclopedia of weird westerns : supernatural and science fiction elements in novels, pulps, comics, films, television and games by Green, Paul, 1955-

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Media, technology and the imagination

Table of Contents: “…On the design of mental organisms -- The aggregate spectator : 125 years of sights, sounds and moving pictures -- Dante, damnation, and the undead : how the conception of hell has changed in literature from the Inferno to the zombie apocalypse -- Nomina nuda tenemus : Jonathan Safran Foer, finding meaning within empty names or (re)construction of deconstruction -- Sucker Punch : a carnivalesque steampunk fairy tale -- The graphic novel : teaching and producing texts -- Genre fiction and the academy : interview with author Michael Arnzen by Chun Lee -- Milton Tube : theoretical implications and practical uses of Paradise Lost web adaptations -- The Frenchman at the kitchen table : the influence of Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida on Bachelder's modern American literary family -- Chris Bachelder's consumers and corporations : Bear v. …”
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The Cultural Moment in Tourism. by Smith, Laurajane

Table of Contents: “…Engagement and performance: created identities in steampunk, cosplay and re-enactment; 7. Publics versus professionals: agency and engagement with 'Robin Hood' and the 'Pilgrim Fathers' in Nottinghamshire; PART III: Moments and others; 8. …”
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Lost City, Found Pyramid : Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. by Anderson, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Card and David S. Anderson; 1. Steampunk Inquiry: A Comparative Vivisection of Discovery Pseudosciences / Jeb J. …”
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Unveiling the Post-Human by Matos Alves, Artur

Table of Contents: “…Bodies in Cyberculture, Life and Social Existence after Death -- Cyberspace and Subversion: The Creation of Culture in Steampunk and Body Modification Cyber-Communities…”
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Neo-victorian cities : reassessing urban politics and poetics

Table of Contents: “…A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas's Jekyll and Hyde10. Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold; 11. The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson's The Mill for Grinding Old People Young; 12. …”
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Understanding William Gibson by Miller, Gerald Alva

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100 ideas that changed street style / One hundred ideas that changed street style by Sims, Josh

Table of Contents: “…Burlesque -- No. 91. Vintage -- No. 92. Steampunk -- No. 93. Decora -- No. 94. Ganguro -- No. 95. …”
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