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

• 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
• Altri autori: HunterI. Q. <1964->
• 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: 1-134-70276-0; 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.: 9910783740003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: British popular cinema.