British Science Fiction Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hunter, I. Q.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the breadth of British sci-fi films through readings of key films, examining the factors that shaped them, and the concerns they reflect, through the postwar boom years to the more sporadic production of recent times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134702763
• Artikelnr.: 42676829

Autorenporträt

I.Q. Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the strange world of the British science fiction film 1
Things to Come and science fiction in the 1930s 2 'We're the Martians now':
British sf invasion fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s 3 Apocalypse then!:
the ultimate monstrosity and strange things on the coast...an interview
with Nigel Kneale 4 Alien women: the politics of sexual difference in
British sf pulp cinema 5 'A stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one':
John Wyndham on screen 6 Trashing London: the British colossal creature
film and fantasies of mass destruction 7 The Day the Earth Caught Fire 8
Adapting telefantasy: the Doctor Who and the Daleks films 9 'A bit of the
old ultra-violence': A Clockwork Orange 10 The British post-Alien intrusion
film 11 Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and its others in Brazil
and Nineteen Eighty-Four 12 'No flesh shall be spared': Richard Stanley's
Hardware