Escape velocity: American science fiction film, 1950-1982

✍ Scribed by Schauer, Bradley;

• Book ID: 100232378
• Publisher: Conn., Wesleyan university press
• Year: 2016;2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 784 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0819576603

✦ Synopsis

SF and the American film industry ; Realizing the future: SF in the postwar American marketplace ; The pulp paradox: SF film of the 1950s ; From parody to profundity: 2001: a space odyssey and the critical legitimation of SF film ; Return to relevance: art, exploitation, and politics in SF film, 1968-1976 ; Revenge of the nerds: the pulp SF blockbuster, 1977-1982 ; Conclusion: SF film today.