Science Fiction Film

Bibliographic Data

ID19937320
AuthorsJ P Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2001
Publication date2001-08-06
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueScience Fiction Film (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511613159
OpenAlexW578044663
Open LibraryOL7747638M
ISBN9780511613159
LanguageEN
Citations received39

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. J. P. Telotte provides a survey of science fiction film criticism, emphasizing humanist, psychological, ideological, feminist, and postmodern critiques. He also sketches a history of the genre, from its earliest literary manifestations to the present, while touching on and comparing it to pulp fiction, early television science fiction, and Japanese animé. Telotte offers in-depth readings of three key films: Robocop, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and THX 1138, each of which typifies a particular form of science fiction fantasy. Challenging the boundaries usually seen between high and low culture, literature and film, Science Fiction Film reasserts the central role of fantasy in popular films, even those concerned with reason, science, and technology

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Criticism · Fantasy · Fiction theory · Film genre · Hollywood · Humanism · Ideology · Literary criticism · Literary fiction · Literature · Movie theater · Political science · Popular culture · Postmodernism · Sci-Fi · Techno-thriller · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · 791.43/615 · Film · Film & Video - History & Criticism · Film criticism · Films, cinema · History & Criticism · History and criticism · Mass media · Media Studies · Motion pictures · Performing Arts · Performing Arts/Dance · Pn1995.9.s26 t45 2001 · Pop Arts · Pop Culture · Science fiction films · Social Science · Social Science-Media Studies · Sociology

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