Autore	Bould Mark
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina	791.43/615 791.43615
Collana	Routledge Film Guidebooks
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films -- History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Music, Dance, Drama & Film Film
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-87460-0 9786613715913 1-136-50028-6 1-136-50027-8 0-203-14332-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The science in science fiction; The sound (and look) of science; The critical potential, pleasures and politics of 'bad' science; Unpicking science's self-image; The social subjectivity of (mad) scientists; The schizoid scientist, sexual terror and political complicity; Women in the lab: body parts; Women in the lab: scientists; Conclusion; 2 Sf, spectacle and self-reflexivity; Attractions; Spectacle, narrative and affect; Special effects and immersivity; The sublime; The grotesque; Camp Self-reflexivity: inanimating the animate, animating the inanimateSelf-reflexivity: surveillance, interpellation, reification, death; Conclusion; 3 Sf, colonialism and globalisation; Sf, cinema and the colonial imagination; Sf's colonial imaginary; Post-imperial melancholy in British sf; Race and anti-imperialism in US countercultural sf; Neo-liberalism and the sf of deindustrialisation; Sf figurations of neoliberal spaces; Representations of labour in contemporary sf; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452891003321

Autore	Bould Mark
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina	791.43/615 791.43615
Collana	Routledge Film Guidebooks
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films -- History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Music, Dance, Drama & Film Film
ISBN	1-280-87460-0 9786613715913 1-136-50028-6 1-136-50027-8 0-203-14332-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The science in science fiction; The sound (and look) of science; The critical potential, pleasures and politics of 'bad' science; Unpicking science's self-image; The social subjectivity of (mad) scientists; The schizoid scientist, sexual terror and political complicity; Women in the lab: body parts; Women in the lab: scientists; Conclusion; 2 Sf, spectacle and self-reflexivity; Attractions; Spectacle, narrative and affect; Special effects and immersivity; The sublime; The grotesque; Camp Self-reflexivity: inanimating the animate, animating the inanimateSelf-reflexivity: surveillance, interpellation, reification, death; Conclusion; 3 Sf, colonialism and globalisation; Sf, cinema and the colonial imagination; Sf's colonial imaginary; Post-imperial melancholy in British sf; Race and anti-imperialism in US countercultural sf; Neo-liberalism and the sf of deindustrialisation; Sf figurations of neoliberal spaces; Representations of labour in contemporary sf; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910823886403321

Autore	Cornea Christine
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	791.43615
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism
ISBN	0-7486-7110-2 1-280-86646-2 9786610866465 0-7486-2870-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgements and thanks -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- 1. Introduction. The formation of the genre -- -- Definitions and approaches -- -- Traditions, forerunners and science fiction films -- -- Interview : writer Brian Aldiss -- -- Interview : writer William Gibson -- 2. Science fiction films in the 1950s -- -- Fathers, sons and alien visitations -- -- Romantic encounters -- -- Daddy's girl -- -- Outside influences -- -- Interview : actor Billy Gray -- 3. Spaced out : between the 'golden years' -- -- The odyssey begins -- -- New worlds and old worlds -- -- Interview : director Ken Russell -- 4. The masculine subject of science fiction in the 1980's : blockbuster era -- -- The family films -- -- The 1980's cyborg film -- -- Science fiction and the global film market -- -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven -- 5. Gender blending and the feminine subject in science fiction film -- -- Horror and the female subject of science fiction as 'composite' being -- -- Replicating the femme fatale -- -- Beyond the femme fatale -- -- Mind over matter -- -- Female hero meets femme fatale -- -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven (Part 2) -- 6. Alien others : race and the science fiction film -- -- Representations of 'blackness' in science fiction of 1960s and 1970s -- -- The African American alien in 1980s science fiction film -- -- Issues of authenticity in the 1990's virtual reality film -- -- The Asian American and the 'Oriental' -- -- The 'Oriental' in Euro-American science fiction film -- -- Interview : actor Joe Morton -- 7. Generic performance and science fiction cinema -- -- Externalising performance -- -- Internalising performance -- -- Interview : actor Dean Norris -- 8. Conclusion : the technology of science fiction cinema -- -- Computer graphics imagery and contemporary science fiction -- -- Interview : special effects technician Stan Winston -- Interview : director Roland Emmerich -- Bibliography -- Films cited -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457064003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina	791.4/3615
Collana	Liverpool science fiction texts and studies Science fiction double feature
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism Cult films - History and criticism Film Music, Dance, Drama & Film
ISBN	1-78138-236-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Science fiction double feature / J.P. Telotte -- From "Multiverse" to "Abramsverse" : Blade runner, Star trek, multiplicity, and the authorizing of cult/SF worlds / Matt Hills -- The coy cult text : The man who wasn't there as noir SF / Mark Bould -- "It's alive!" : the splattering of SF films / Stacey Abbott -- Sean Connery reconfigured : from Bond to cult science fiction figure / Geral Duchovnay -- The cult film as affective technology : anime and Oshii Mamoru's Innocence / Sharlyn Orbaugh -- Whedon, Browncoats, and the Big Damn Narrative : the unified meta-myth of Firefly and Serenity / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Iron sky's war bonds : cult SF cinema and crowdsourcing / Chuck Tryon -- Transnational interactions : District 9, or Apaches in Johannesburg / Takayuki Tatsumi -- A donut for Tom Paris : identity and belonging at European SF/fantasy conventions / Nicolle Lamerichs -- Robot monster and the "Watchable-- terrible" cult/SF film / J.P. Telotte -- Science fiction and the cult of Ed Wood : Glen or Glenda?, Bride of the monster, and Plan 9 from outer space / Rodney F. Hill -- Visual pleasure, the cult, and paracinema / Sherryl Vint -- "Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority" : Dark star, a boy, and his dog, and New Wave cult SF / Rob Latham -- Capitalism, camp, and cult SF : Space truckers as satire / M. Keith Booker -- Bubba Ho-tep and the seriously silly cult film / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910154851203321

Autore	Telotte J. P. <1949->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	791.43/615
Collana	Genres in American cinema
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism
ISBN	1-107-11451-9 1-283-33146-2 9786613331465 1-139-13402-7 1-139-13021-8 0-511-03992-1 0-511-15546-8 0-511-61315-6 0-511-05019-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PA RT ONE Approaches; PART TWO Historical Overview; PART THREE Film Analyses; Notes; Bibliography; Select Filmography of the American Science Fiction Film; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450104303321