| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The formation of the genre -- Definitions and approaches -- Traditions, forerunners, and science fiction films -- Interview : writer Brian Aldiss -- Interview : writer William Gibson -- Science fiction films in the 1950s -- Fathers, sons, and alien visitations -- Romantic encounters -- Daddy's girl -- Outside influences -- Interview : actor Billy Gray -- Spaced out : between the "golden years" -- The odyssey begins -- New worlds and old worlds -- Interview : director Ken Russell -- The masculine subject of science fiction in the 1980s blockbuster era -- The family films -- The 1980s cyborg film -- Science fiction and the global film market -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven -- Gender blending and the feminine subject in science fiction film -- Horror and the female subject of science fiction as "composite" being -- Replicating the femme fatale -- Beyond the femme fatale -- Mind over matter -- Female hero meets femme fatale -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven (part 2) -- Alien others : race and the science fiction film -- Representations of "Blackness" in science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s -- The African American alien in 1980s science fiction film -- Issues of authenticity in the 1990s virtual reality film -- The Asian American and the "Oriental" -- The "Oriental" in the Euro-American science fiction film -- Interview : actor Joe Morton -- Generic performance and science fiction cinema -- Externalising performance -- Internalising performance -- Interview : actor Dean Norris -- The technology of science fiction cinema -- Computer graphics imagery and contemporary science fiction -- Interview : special effects technician Stan Winston -- Interview : director Roland Emmerich |
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Includes filmography: pages 289-294 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-288) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Science fiction films
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Geschichte.
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Science-fiction-Film.
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United States
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006102526 |
| ISBN |
9780748628704 |
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0748628703 |
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9780748671106 |
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0748671102 |
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