SFRA Pioneer Award
1回登壇
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第2回（1991年） Winner
Howard Bruce Franklin
ハワード・ブルース・フランクリン
H. Bruce Franklin
別名:
H. Bruce Franklin / Bruce Franklin
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1934-02-28 （New York City）
- 死没
- 2024-05-19 （El Cerrito, California） 90歳
- 国籍
- American
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Brooklyn → New York City → Stanford → Newark → El Cerrito
経歴
- 職業
- cultural historian, scholar
- 活動期間
- 1961年〜2018年
- 所属
- Stanford University, Rutgers University–Newark, Melville Society
- 所属団体
- Bay Area Revolutionary Union, Venceremos
- 影響を与えた人物
- Noam Chomsky
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | — | English | B.A. | 1951-1955 | United States |
| Stanford University | — | English | Ph.D. | 1955-1961 | United States |
Amherst College
English
学位:
B.A.
期間:
1951-1955
卒業年:
1955
国:
United States
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Stanford University
English
学位:
Ph.D.
期間:
1955-1961
卒業年:
1961
国:
United States
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Eaton Award | Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction | — | Eaton SF Conference | 受賞 |
| 1983 | SFRA Pilgrim Award | — | — | SFRA | 受賞 |
| 1991 | SFRA Pioneer Award | — | — | SFRA | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Pearson-Bode Prize | — | — | American Studies Association | 生涯功労賞 |
Eaton Award
1981
対象作品:
Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction
主催:
Eaton SF Conference
結果:
受賞
SFRA Pilgrim Award
1983
主催:
SFRA
結果:
受賞
SFRA Pioneer Award
1991
主催:
SFRA
結果:
受賞
Pearson-Bode Prize
2008
主催:
American Studies Association
結果:
生涯功労賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
1966年 Science Fiction CriticismIdentifies early American SF writers like Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville.
Origins of SFAmerican Culture
War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination
1988年 Cultural HistoryExamines American fascination with superweapons in literature.
SuperweaponsWar Fantasies
M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America
1992年 Vietnam War StudiesDebunks the MIA myth post-Vietnam War.
Vietnam WarMyth-making
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
2007年 Environmental HistoryArgues for the importance of menhaden in marine ecology.
Marine EcologyConservation
全著作
- Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War (2018)
- The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America (2007)
- Vietnam & Other American Fantasies (2001)
- Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (1998)
- The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems (1996)
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America (1992)
- War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination (1988)
- Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist (1989)
- Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (1980)
- Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1966)
- The Wake of the Gods: Melville's Mythology (1963)
作風・主題
- 文体
- Scholarly AnalysisHistorical ContextualizationInterdisciplinary
- 頻出モチーフ
- War and MythSF and CulturePrison LiteratureEnvironment
健康
-
corticobasal degeneration晩年Cause of death.
評価・遺産
Received top awards in American studies, SF, prison literature, marine ecology. Key in establishing SF as academic field and debunking Vietnam MIA myths.
関連学会
- SFRA
- American Studies Association
- International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
資料所蔵先
- Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
大衆文化への影響
- Guest curator for Star Trek exhibit at Smithsonian.
引用
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Fundamental to the historical experience of American culture are alien invaders who came armed with a superior technology...
出典: Comment on Independence Day (1996年) -
The typical American prison is designed and run to maximize degradation, brutalization, and punishment...
出典: 2015 article (2015年) -
This is a culture which gets much of its vision of reality from images projected on movie screens, television screens and computer screens.
出典: 2007 (2007年)
豆知識
- Only tenured professor fired from Stanford.
- Active in Vietnam War opposition.
- Resigned Air Force Reserve commission in protest.
- Married to Jane Franklin until her death in 2023; three children.