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.
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.
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
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
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