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Author Schiltz, Francoise

Title The Future Revisited : Jules Verne on Screen in 1950s America
Published Luton : Andrews UK, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; The Future Revisited; Introduction: Jules Verne and the Cinema; Chapter One: From Novel to Film:; Chapter Two: Sightseeing with Todd-AO; Chapter Three: Travelling Domestic; Chapter Four: The Future in the Past; Conclusion: Looking Back; End Matter; Bibliography; Filmography; Colour Plates; Also Available
Summary The Future Revisited examines Hollywood adaptations of Jules Verne stories and is an interdisciplinary study that offers a fresh perspective on film history, French literature, science fiction and America in the 1950s. It is a fascinating and authoritative account of how the stories of Jules Verne, a distinguished French novelist better known around the world as the father of science fiction and an accurate predictor of much of the twentieth century, found particular resonance with US filmma ..
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Subject Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 -- Film adaptations
SUBJECT Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 fast
Subject French fiction -- 19th century -- Film adaptations
Film adaptations -- United States -- History and criticism
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Film adaptations
French fiction
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780957112858
0957112858