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 | | Even today, the film is acclaimed for its original, futuristic sets, mechanized society themes and a gigantic subterranean flood - it appeared to accurately project the nature of society in the year 2000. | | | Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into outer space, or (most often) into the future time. | | | Bride of Frankenstein (1935), one of the best examples of the horror-SF crossover, and one of the first films with a mad scientist's creation of miniaturized human beings. |
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http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
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| | Foster on Film - Science Fiction |
| | I am taken by the sheer beauty of the film, the great towers and spires, and the remarkable robot (which Lucas used as a basis for C-3PO in Star Wars). | | | The '50s were filled with monsters from space that chased teenagers down rural roads and not one could coax a chill from me. That changed with Alien, a haunted house film where the house was a mining spaceship and the ghost was an ooze-covered, multi-mouthed...well...alien. | | | I joined Neil's Dr. Grant in his open mouthed stare when the brontosaurs lumbered onto the screen. |
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http://www.fosteronfilm.com/important/sf.htm
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| | Film Appreciation - Science Fiction |
| | Variety described this as "the best Disney film Disney never made" and truer words may never have been spoken. | | | The film features James Mason in a wonderfully measured performance as the tortured genius Captain Nemo in this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel. | | | This film, which won Oscars for its special effects and art direction, launched Disney's distribution arm Buena Vista. |
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http://www.twyman-whitney.com/film/genre/sciencefiction.html
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| | Futuristic Visions in Science Fiction Film |
| | It contains the wet streets and dark imagery of an American film noir, and though the story is clearly set in the future, cars from the 1940s drive through cobble-stoned streets. | | | By incorporating elements from every imaginable corner of popular culture, Lucas created a futuristic universe that surpassed any in film history. | | | The result, incredibly, was the most successful motion picture in history. |
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http://www.ericenders.com/scifi.htm
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are fan fiction sites which include additional, fan-created stories featuring characters from the genre's books, movies, and television programs. | | | The science-fictional elements may be imagined or rooted in reality, original or cliché. | | | However, while some science fiction is set in the future, most authors are not attempting literally to predict it; instead, they use the future as an open framework for their themes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
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| | Science fiction film |
| | There were earlier science fiction films of course (eg., Melies's A trip to the moon (1902)), but it is significant that after 75 years not only are the same grand themes still central to the genre, but so is the name Metropolis and the vision it invokes. | | | Telotte has chosen four films: THX 1138 (Lucas 1971), Close encounters of the third kind (Spielberg 1977), Robocop (Verhoeven 1987), and The fly (Cronenberg 1986). | | | The American historical experience has been quite different and so the science fiction film in the US has usually concerned itself with different themes, although many of these have frequently been derivative of certain elements of the Metropolis Ur-text. |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev1002/mbbr14a.htm
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| | Horror & Science Fiction Film Review |
| | USA Today's picks for the 10 most frightening films of all time were (in alphabetical order): Alien (1979), The Exorcist (1973), The Haunting (1963), The Innocents (1961), Jaws (1975), The Omen (1976), Psycho (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Shining (1980), and Suspiria (1977). | | | As desensitized as I am today, this movie was too gross in showing evil getting away with "everything". | | | The critics were hard on this old 69 minutes black and white film. |
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http://www.accs.net/users/wolf/film-hsf.htm
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| | Forbidden Planet |
| | Despite its great age, it shows no signs of wear and tear, as it is able to repair and maintain itself. | | | Unlike many of this film's predecessors, rockets are not used for space travel. | | | Unlike most aliens in film, they are not implicitly humanoid. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/film/films/forbidden_planet.html
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| | War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination | | | Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974) | | | They Came From Outer Space: Alien Encounters in the Movies |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/sffilmbib.htm
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| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- SFM Features -- Museum News -- Science Fiction Short Film Festival Launched |
| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- SFM Features -- Museum News -- Science Fiction Short Film Festival Launched | | | The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is the first museum to archive and exhibit great works of science fiction literature, film and art. | | | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and Seattle International Film Festival Group Launch First Annual Science Fiction Short Film Festival |
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http://www.sfhomeworld.org/make_contact/article.asp?articleID=218
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| | Silent S.F. Introduction |
| | There were plenty more films with this theme than you might imagine. | | | From there, I sought out as many videos as I could with a science fiction element from the silent era. | | | Like many folks, I was amazed when I first viewed the film Metropolis. |
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http://www.silentsf.com
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| | Science Fiction Film Notes: Alien |
| | The visual density of the cyberpunk city, the incessant sense of movement on the streets and a clever use of differing senses of scale give the film a distinct "look" that has been much copied but never equaled. | | | Give a few examples of the way it is used in the film. | | | The film provides an exploration of the line between the synthetic and the organic as the Deckard, (played by Harrison Ford), searches out renegade "replicants" or androids. |
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http://www.cord.edu/faculty/luther/physics380/notes_on_Bladerunner.html
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| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame |
| | SFM and out-of-this-world hotel sponsor, Courtyard by Marriott Seattle, Lake Union, invite you on a Fantastic Voyage! | | | Field trips to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and Experience Music Project. | | | Continue the journey...Make contact with more science fiction resources in the museum, around the block, and around the world. |
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http://www.sfhomeworld.org
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| | womzilla: Science fiction in film form |
| | One of the themes of both critical works is that the visuals of a science fiction film can, and often do, encode science fictional invention in themselves--not just in the flashing lights and meaningless products on the shelves, but in the extrapolative visuals of the movements of bodies in zero-g. | | | A couple of years ago, Brooks Landon presented a speech at the ICFA which elaborated, very interestingly, on Annette Michelson's essay on 2001, "Bodies in Space". | | | The two women in the film do just fine. |
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http://womzilla.livejournal.com/20037.html
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| | Amazon.com: Science Fiction Film (Genres in American Cinema): Books: J. P. Telotte,Barry Keith Grant |
| | This book starts to talk about how comic strips and comic books influenced science fiction movies and serials, which is a valid point. | | | Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film by Vivian Sobchack | | | Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521596475?v=glance
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| | Genre Studies: American Science Fiction Film |
| | The movie The Thing ends with an urgent exclamation of a reporter asking his fellow-countrymen to "keep watching the skies," as another unwelcome visitor from another world might be coming. | | | Ever since the beginning of the sci-fi genre, its creators have grappled with the same set of ideas: the theme of a society's power turned against itself is, for instance, at the core of the film Forbidden Planet. | | | The Development of a Genre: The (American) Science-Fiction Film |
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http://www.phil.muni.cz/angl/englishdigit/scifi.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Science Fiction Poster Art: Books |
| | Moreover, although many of the films may be familiar, a fair proportion of the posters will not. | | | Subjects > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > General | | | Subjects > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > Film Genres > Bestsellers |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1854109464
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| | Introduction to Gary Westfahl's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film |
| | All film titles end with the director's name and year of release in parentheses. | | | If the subject was only involved in one part of an episodic film, that part is described as a “segment,” with the term “episode” reserved for individual episodes of television series. | | | Following each title, there may be, in parentheses, a statement about shared credit or special information about the credit; there may also be, in separate parentheses, a statement about the special nature of the title (short, animated, documentary, tv movie, etc.). |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Gary Westfahl's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film |
| | A cult audience I subscribe to myself is that of the silent film in general; it's a mode of filmmaking I've always had a feeling for ever since I got interested in films to begin with. | | | Westfahl seems never to have been part of a cult audience for a film or genre, which is odd because SF is a genre which attracts cult followings if ever there was one. | | | Then again, I like 2001 better than many other films too. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/13/024438.php
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| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Joan Collins |
| | Yet that film represented a turning point in Collins's career, as it was arguably her first major outing as a beautiful middle-aged bitch-queen, the role that would finally make her a star in the television soap opera Dynasty. | | | In the beginning, after starring in Esther and the King, she was pencilled in to star in a remake of Cleopatra, and probably would have been fine in the part; but delusions of grandeur and a larger budget brought Elizabeth Taylor in as her replacement, with well-documented and disastrous results. | | | While a woman of such overtly worldly desires would hardly seem suited for the esoteric and intellectual pleasures of science fiction, Joan Collins has also been a very hard worker, and hard-working actresses going through lulls in their careers tend to find themselves in science fiction films. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/gary/coll01.htm
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| | Science Fiction and Film |
| | Emphases have included the esthetics of the science fiction film, the theme of "the human/machine interface," issues of gender, and 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Matrix as central modern and postmodern SF films. | | | Other films have included: Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Blade Runner, Clockwork Orange, Dr. | | | Strangelove, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Brazil, and Twelve Monkeys. |
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http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/350
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| | Science Fiction/TV & Film |
| | Copyright 1971 Apjac Productions Inc. and 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. (P) 1974 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. The back has "Power Records, 14-5 Komorn Street, N.J. 07105, Made and Manufactured in the U.S.A. Only 4 Titles were made at the time and these are extremely difficult to find especially in such excellent condition. | | | This book and record are in perfect unused condition. |
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| | Science Fiction Film |
| | Star Wars: Back to the Future of the Star Wars Films | | | Star Wars: Origins of The Star Wars Films | | | Alien: The Precursors to Ridley Scott's Classic Science Fiction Film |
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http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/sffilm.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Music, Stage & Screen, Film, Film ... |
| | Top science fiction and fantasy writers profess their devotion, interrogate the show's complexity and speculate on what might have been if Firefly had been renewed. | | | Books > Subjects > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > Film Genres > | | | Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Music, Stage & Screen, Film, Film Genres, Science Fiction |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/513006
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| | Contents Page: 43 (Science Fiction Film) |
| | Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film | | | Science-Fiction Film Criticism: The Postmodern Always Rings Twice (Vivian Sobchack. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov43.htm
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| | Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction |
| | Science Fiction Film Bibliography (text version; use when the preceding is busy) | | | Science Fiction Film Bibliography (searchable version: limit 10 users) | | | Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/Science_Fiction_Guides.html
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| | Science Fiction Film |
| | Books on Reserve for Science Fiction Film, 2004 | | | SF Film: Policy Statement for Engl 450/650, Spring 2004 |
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http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffilm/indexsff.html
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| | Find in a Library: Science fiction film |
| | Subjects: Science fiction films -- History and criticism. | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. | | | Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
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