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Titolo: |
British science fiction cinema / / edited by I.Q. Hunter
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.43/615 |
Soggetto topico: | Science fiction films - Great Britain - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
HunterI. Q. <1964->
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | British science fiction cinema ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-203-00977-0 |
0-203-16980-8 | |
1-280-33522-X | |
1-134-70277-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450440703321 |
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