Science fiction cinema : between fantasy and reality /: between fantasy and reality. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christine Cornea.
• Authors: Cornea, Christine
• Contents: The formation of the genre -- Definitions and approaches -- Traditions, forerunners, and science fiction films -- Interview : writer Brian Aldiss -- Interview : writer William Gibson -- Science fiction films in the 1950s -- Fathers, sons, and alien visitations -- Romantic encounters -- Daddy's girl -- Outside influences -- Interview : actor Billy Gray -- Spaced out : between the "golden years" -- The odyssey begins -- New worlds and old worlds -- Interview : director Ken Russell -- The masculine subject of science fiction in the 1980s blockbuster era -- The family films -- The 1980s cyborg film -- Science fiction and the global film market -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven -- Gender blending and the feminine subject in science fiction film -- Horror and the female subject of science fiction as "composite" being -- Replicating the femme fatale -- Beyond the femme fatale -- Mind over matter -- Female hero meets femme fatale -- Interview : director Paul Verhoeven (part 2) -- Alien others : race and the science fiction film -- Representations of "Blackness" in science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s -- The African American alien in 1980s science fiction film -- Issues of authenticity in the 1990s virtual reality film -- The Asian American and the "Oriental" -- The "Oriental" in the Euro-American science fiction film -- Interview : actor Joe Morton -- Generic performance and science fiction cinema -- Externalising performance -- Internalising performance -- Interview : actor Dean Norris -- The technology of science fiction cinema -- Computer graphics imagery and contemporary science fiction -- Interview : special effects technician Stan Winston -- Interview : director Roland Emmerich.
• Publisher Details: New Brunswick, N.J : Rutgers University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/615; Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism; Films de science-fiction -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General; Science fiction films; Geschichte; Science-fiction-Film; Film; Music, Dance, Drama & Film; United States; USA; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748628704; 0748628703
• Related ISBNs: 9780813541723; 0813541727; 9780813541730; 0813541735
• Notes: Note: Includes filmography: pages 289-294.; Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-288) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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