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Projecting Tomorrow - Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (Paperback)
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Projecting Tomorrow - Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (Paperback)
Series: Cinema and Society
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Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. Science
fiction has been at the cutting edge of film technology and the
genre has produced some of the most ambitious, imaginative and
visually spectacular films ever made. Yet science fiction cinema is
about more than just state-of-the-art special effects. It has also
provided a vehicle for film-makers and writers to comment on their
own societies and cultures. In this new study of the genre, James
Chapman and Nicholas Cull examine a series of landmark science
fiction films from the 1930s to the present. They include genre
classics, including 'Things to Come', 'Forbidden Planet', 'Planet
of the Apes' and '2001: A Space Odyssey', alongside modern
blockbusters 'Star Wars' and 'Avatar'. They consider both screen
originals and adaptations of the work of major science fiction
authors such as H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke. They range widely
across the genre from pulp adventure and space opera to political
allegory and speculative documentary- there is even a science
fiction musical. Chapman and Cull explore the contexts and document
the production histories of each film to show how they made their
way to the screen- and why they turned out the way they did.
Informed throughout by extensive original research in US and
British archives, Projecting Tomorrow will be essential reading for
all students and fans of science fiction cinema.
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