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British science fiction cinema / edited by I.Q. Hunter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- British popular cinema.
- British popular cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best British films, from the prewar classic Things to Come to Alien made in Britain by a British director. The contributors to this rich and provocative collection explore the diverse strangeness of British science fiction, from literary adaptions like Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Clockwork Orange to pulp fantasies and 'creature features' far removed from the acceptable face of British cinema.Through case studies of
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the strange world of the British science fiction film; Things to Come and science fiction in the 1930's; 'We're the Martians now': British sf invasion fantasies of the 1950's and 1960's; Apocalypse then!: the ultimate monstrosity and strange things on the coastan interview with Nigel Kneale; Alien women: the politics of sexual difference in British sf pulp cinema; 'A stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one': John Wyndham on screen
- Trashing London: the British colossal creature film and fantasies of mass destruction The Day the Earth Caught Fire; Adapting telefantasy: the Doctor Who and the Daleks films; 'A bit of the old ultra-violence': A Clockwork Orange; The British post-Alien intrusion film; Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and its others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four; 'No flesh shall be spared': Richard Stanley's Hardware; Filmography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Filmography: p. [181]-208.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-70276-0
- 0-203-00977-0
- 0-203-16980-8
- 1-280-33522-X
- 1-134-70277-9
- 9780203009772
- OCLC:
- 304130421
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