Projecting tomorrow : science fiction and popular cinema /: science fiction and popular cinema. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull.
• Other Names: Chapman, James, 1968-; Cull, Nicholas John
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionDry Future: Just Imagine (1930)The Prophet and the Showman: Things to Come (1936)Screening Wells for Cold War America: The War of the Worlds (1953)The British Invasions: The Quatermass Experiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967)Sex and the Single Robot: Forbidden Planet (1956)The Watershed: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Monkey Business: Planet of the Apes (1968)Stretching the Genre: The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)Future Imperfect: Logan's Run (1976)No Time for Sorrows: Star Wars (1977)Rustbelt Messiah: RoboCop (1987)The Image as Hero: Avatar (2009) AfterwordFilmographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43615; Science fiction films -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857733122; 0857733125
• Related ISBNs: 9781780764108
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.