Steampunk film: a critical introduction

A concise and accessible overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridise and coalesce into new forms.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, a series of high-profile and big-budget films have adopted steampunk identities to re-imagine periods of industrial development into fantastical histories where future meets past.

By calling this growing mass-cultural fetishism for anachronistic machines into question, this book examines how a retro-futuristic romanticism for technology powered by cogs, pistons and steam-engines has taken centre stage in blockbuster cinema.