Science fiction film / J.P. Telotte.
Science fiction film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. J.P. Telotte provides a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Genres in American cinema.
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| Summary: | Science fiction film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. J.P. Telotte provides a survey of science fiction film criticism, emphasizing humanist, psychological, ideological, feminist, and postmodern critiques. He also sketches a history of the genre, from its earliest literary manifestations to the present, while touching on and comparing it to pulp fiction, early television science fiction, and Japanese anime. Telotte offers in-depth readings of three key films: Robocop, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and THX 1138, each of which typifies a particular form of science fiction fantasy. Challenging the boundaries usually seen between high and low culture, literature and film, Science fiction film reasserts the central role of fantasy in popular films, even those concerned with reason, science, and technology. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Filmography: pages 225-244. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521593727 9780521593724 0521596475 9780521596473 0511034954 9780511034954 9780511039928 0511039921 9780511613159 0511613156 0511155468 9780511155468 0511050194 9780511050190 1283331462 9781283331463 1107114519 9781107114517 9786613331465 6613331465 1139134027 9781139134026 1139130218 9781139130219 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |