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Covers special effects, plot summaries, and analyses of the greatest and most notorious films, among them "The Thing", Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", and "Star Wars."

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. The science fiction genre has produced some of the most extraordinary films ever made, yet science fiction cinema is about more than just special effects. It has also provided a vehicle for filmmakers and writers to comment on their own societies and cultures. This new exploration of the genre examines landmark science fiction films from the 1930s to the present. They include genre classics such...

This guide explores cinema's fascination with space exploration, time travel, and fantastical worlds and tells the stories behind the movies that have been expanding our universe since film began.

Encompassing 375 of the genre's silent films, sound films, and serials from the first half of the 20th century, this volume features biographical material, plot summaries, production anecdotes, and literary origins. Originally published in 1985. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

"Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre...

The atom bomb and the fate of the human race as shown in films from the silent era, through the 1950s/60s to the end of the 20th century. These movies spoke not only about the nuclear menace but also many facets of postwar culture, and how the politics of the nuclear age changed society.

"To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or viewer to think critically about it, then to transfer this critical thinking to his or her own world. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents...