British Science Fiction Cinema

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ISBN: 9780415168687 | 0415168686
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Copyright: 6/22/1999

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While overshadowed by Hollywood's prolific output, British science fiction is responsible for many of the classics of the genre. In a series of case studies of key films, this book spans the history of sci-fi filmmaking in Britain, embracing not just British-produced films but classics by British directors in Hollywood such as Stanley Kubrik's2001: A Space OdysseyandA Clockwork Orange, and Ridley Scott'sAlienandBlade Runner.

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List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the strange world of the British science fiction film	p. 1
Things to Come and science fiction in the 1930s	p. 16
'We're the Martians now': British sf invasion fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s	p. 33
Apocalypse then!: the ultimate monstrosity and strange things on the coast ... an interview with Nigel Kneale	p. 48
Alien women: the politics of sexual difference in British sf pulp cinema	p. 57
'A stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one': John Wyndham on screen	p. 75
Trashing London: the British colossal creature film and fantasies of mass destruction	p. 88
The Day the Earth Caught Fire	p. 99
Adapting telefantasy: the Doctor Who and the Daleks films	p. 113
'A bit of the old ultra-violence': A Clockwork Orange	p. 128
The British post-Alien intrusion film	p. 138
Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and its others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four	p. 153
'No flesh shall be spared': Richard Stanley's Hardware	p. 169
Filmography	p. 181
Index	p. 209
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