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UNINA9910797520403321 |
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Brode Douglas <1943-> |
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Fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents : the 100 greatest science-fiction films / / Douglas Brode |
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Austin, [Texas] : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Science fiction films - History and criticism |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The List: The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Films -- A TRIP TO THE MOON/ LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902). PART 1 -- A TRIP TO THE MOON/ LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902). PART 2 -- Appendices -- General Index -- Film Index |
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Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Méliès’ 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time. Brode’s list ranges from today’s blockbusters to forgotten gems, with surprises for even the most informed fans and scholars. He presents the movies in chronological order, which effectively makes this book a concise history of the sci-fi film genre. A striking (and in many cases rare) photograph accompanies each entry, for which Brode provides a numerical rating, key credits and cast members, brief plot summary, background on the film’s creation, elements of the moviemaking process, analysis of the major theme(s), and trivia. He also includes fun outtakes, including his top ten lists of Fifties sci-fi movies, cult sci-fi, least necessary movie remakes, and “so bad they’re great” classics—as |
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well as the ten worst sci-fi movies (“those highly ambitious films that promised much and delivered nil”). So climb aboard spaceship Brode and journey to strange new worlds from Metropolis (1927) to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). |
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UNINA9910791954203321 |
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Autore |
Harris Geraldine |
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Beyond representation : Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity / / Geraldine Harris |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006 |
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1-78170-101-6 |
1-84779-172-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Multiculturalism - Political aspects |
Television plays, American - History and criticism |
Television plays, English - History and criticism |
Television plays, English |
Television plays, American |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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First published as hardback in 2006. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780719074585; 9780719074585; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: beyond the politics of identity?; 1 Beyond realism? Modes of reading in Marxist-socialist and post-Marxist-socialist Television drama criticism; 2 The end(s) of feminism(s)? From Madonna to Ally McBeal; 3 Divided duties: diasporic subjectivities and 'race relations' dramas (Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation); 4 The world of enterprise: myths of the global and global myths (Star Trek); 5 Only human nature after all? Romantic attractions and queer dilemmas (Queer as Folk) |
Conclusion: beyond (simple) representation? Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen LawrenceReferences; Index |
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'Beyond Representation' poses the question as to whether over the last 30 years there have been signs of progress in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US. |
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