Alternate Americas Science Fiction Film and American Culture

Name: Alternate Americas Science Fiction Film and American Culture
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ISBN: 9780275983956

ISBN-10: 0275983951

ISBN-13: 9780275983956

Edition: 2006

Authors: M. Keith Booker

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For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most successful and innovative science fiction films of all time, and examined each of them at length-from cultural, technical and cinematic perspectives-to see where they came from and what they meant for the future of cinema and for America at large. From…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Introduction


The Day the Earth Stood Still Forbidden Planet


Invasion of the Body Snatchers 2001: A Space Odyssey Planet of the Apes Star


Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind Alien E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Blade Runner


The Terminator Robocop


The Abyss Independence Day


The Matrix


Conclusion


Notes


Index