03047nam 2200469 450 991082037300332120230124193239.01-4766-0413-4(CKB)3710000000462435(EBL)2146896(MiAaPQ)EBC2146896(EXLCZ)99371000000046243520150910h19981998 uy 1engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScience fiction serials a critical filmography of the 31 hard SF cliffhangers : with an appendix of the 37 serials with slight SF content /by Roy KinnardJefferson, North Carolina ;London, [England] :McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,1998.©19981 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7864-3745-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Lost City (1935); The Phantom Empire (1935); Flash Gordon (1936); Undersea Kingdom (1936); Dick Tracy (1937); Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938); The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938); Buck Rogers (1939); The Phantom Creeps (1939); Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940); Mysterious Dr. Satan (1940); Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941); Batman (1943); Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945); The Monster and the Ape (1945); The Purple Monster Strikes (1945); The Crimson Ghost (1946); Brick Bradford (1947); Superman (1948)Batman and Robin (1949)King of the Rocket Men (1949); The Invisible Monster (1950); Atom Man vs. Superman (1950); Flying Disc Man from Mars (1951); Mysterious Island (1951); Captain Video (1951); Radar Men from the Moon (1952); Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952); The Lost Planet (1953); Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955); Appendix: 37 Serials with Incidental Science Fiction Elements; Bibliography; IndexDestination Moon; George Pal's 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy science fiction film. Usually ignored or casually dismissed in genre histories are the serials, the low-budget chapterplays exhibited as Saturday matinee fare and targeted almost exclusively at children. Lacking stars and top-notch writers or directors, the serials went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by either critics or by the film industry. Yet serials were financially important to the Hollywood studios, and were often free to exploit risky or outlandish subjects that producers of ""distingScience fiction filmsCatalogsFilm serialsCatalogsScience fiction filmsFilm serials016.79143/615791.43615Kinnard Roy1952-1633288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820373003321Science fiction serials3972959UNINA