1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818728803321

Titolo

British science fiction cinema / / edited by I.Q. Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-70276-0

0-203-00977-0

0-203-16980-8

1-280-33522-X

1-134-70277-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

British popular cinema

Altri autori (Persone)

HunterI. Q. <1964->

Disciplina

791.43/615

Soggetti

Science fiction films - Great Britain - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Filmography: p. [181]-208.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the strange world of the British science fiction film; Things to Come and science fiction in the 1930's; 'We're the Martians now': British sf invasion fantasies of the 1950's and 1960's; Apocalypse then!: the ultimate monstrosity and strange things on the coastan interview with Nigel Kneale; Alien women: the politics of sexual difference in British sf pulp cinema; 'A stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one': John Wyndham on screen

Trashing London: the British colossal creature film and fantasies of mass destruction The Day the Earth Caught Fire; Adapting telefantasy: the Doctor Who and the Daleks films; 'A bit of the old ultra-violence': A Clockwork Orange; The British post-Alien intrusion film; Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and its others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four; 'No flesh shall be spared': Richard Stanley's Hardware; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best British films, from the prewar classic Things to Come to Alien made in Britain by a British director. The contributors to this rich and



provocative collection explore the diverse strangeness of British science fiction, from literary adaptions like Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Clockwork Orange to pulp fantasies and 'creature features' far removed from the acceptable face of British cinema.Through case studies of