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Future tense : the cinema of science fiction / John Brosnan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brosnan, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction films--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- Covers special effects, plot summaries, and analyses of the greatest and most notorious films, among them "The Thing", Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", and "Star Wars".
- Contents:
- Yesterday's tomorrow (1900-1930)
- Things that came (1930-1940)
- Interval (1940-1950)
- Boom! (1950-1955)
- British SF in the 1950s
- Burn-out (1955-1960)
- New directions (1960-1965)
- We are the martians (1965-1970)
- Boom two (1970-1973)
- The boom goes on (1973-1976)
- A close encounter with Dtar wars (1977-1978)
- Appendix : SF on television.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 14907
- ISBN:
- 0312314884 :
- OCLC:
- 4496224
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