Autore	Schelde Per
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1993]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina	791.43 791.43/615 791.43615
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism
ISBN	0-585-32117-5 0-8147-8875-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dangerous Science -- 3. Meanwhile Back in the Kitchen; or, Women and Science -- 4. Humanoids in the Toolshed -- 5. In the Belly of the Beast -- 6. Disembodied Brains -- 7. Docile Bodies -- 8. Intrusive Media -- 9. The Dystopia -- 10. The Human Form Submerged, Beleaguered, and Triumphant -- 11. Have Mind, Seek Soul: The Android's Quest -- 12. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNISA-996582060603316

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina	791.43/615
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism Apocalypse in motion pictures
ISBN	1-4422-6029-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani -- THE EARLY DEPICTIONS OF DISASTER. World War One and Hollywood's First Modern Armageddon: Understanding Wartime and Post-Conflict Representations of a Global Cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- The end of the world: loss and redemption in Four horsemen of the apocalypse / Karen Randell -- GLOBAL DEMISE AND COLD WAR. "Radiation's rising, but one mustn't grumble too much": nuclear apocalypse played as farce in Richard Lester's The bed-sitting room / Thomas Prasch -- The legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, science fiction blockbusters and the future of humanity / Peter Krämer -- "Gentleman, you can't fight in here": gender symbolism and the end of the world in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia / Catriona Mcavoy -- MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE APOCALYSPE. Is there an end to it? fictional shelters and shelter-fiction / Solvejg Nitzke -- Melancholia and the apocalypse within / Pierre Floquet -- Eco apocalypse: environmentalism, political alienation and therapeutic agency / Philip Hammond and Hugh Ortega Breton --POLITICS OF SHOWING THE UNTHINKABLE. Disaster films: the end of the world and the risk society hero / Frederick Wasser -- The (gender) politics of disaster in 2012 / Charles Antoine Courcoux -- Tarkovsky's The sacrifice: a religious humanist apocalypse / Tatjana Ljuji -- Dead narratives: defining humanity through stories / A. Fiona Pearson and Scott Ellis -- MOVING BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD. Opposing Thatcherism: filmic apocalypse as a political strategy in 1980s Britain / Angela Krewani -- Painting in time: on the use of digital visual effects in Melancholia / Andreas Kirchner -- The corporate and corporeal: min(d)ing the body conscience and consumption in early 21st century Hollywood dystopia / Wendy Sterba.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797864103321

Autore	Fortin David Terrance
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	791.43/615
Collana	Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism Motion pictures and architecture Home in motion pictures
ISBN	1-351-95746-5 1-315-26224-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. Science-fiction, architecture, and home -- pt. 2. Re-visioning home in Dick-inspired films -- pt. 3. Go home. I'm home. Becoming home : architecture and grammar in SF.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910155029303321

Autore	Nama Adilifu <1969->
Edizione	[First edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	791.43/615
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - History and criticism Black people in motion pictures African Americans in motion pictures PERFORMING ARTS - Film & Video - Reference Blacks in motion pictures Science fiction films
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-292-79451-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Structured absence and token presence -- Bad blood : fear of racial contamination -- The Black body : figures of distortion -- Humans unite! Race, class, and postindustrial aliens -- White narratives, black allegories -- Subverting the genre : the mothership connection.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454660003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina	791.43/615
Altri autori (Persone)	HunterI. Q. <1964->
Collana	British popular cinema
Soggetto topico	Science fiction films - Great Britain - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
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	eng
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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450440703321