British Science Fiction Cinema

by Hunter,I.Q.; Hunter,I.Q.

• ISBN13: 9780415168670
• ISBN10: 0415168678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii	(2)
Notes on contributors	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: the strange world of the British science fiction film	1	(15)
I.Q. HUNTER
1 Things to Come and science fiction in the 1930s	16	(17)
JEFFREY RICHARDS
2 'We're the Martians now': British sf invasion fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s	33	(15)
PETER HUTCHINGS
3 Apocalypse then!: the ultimate monstrosity and strange things on the coast...an interview with Nigel Kneale	48	(9)
PAUL WELLS
4 Alien women: the politics of sexual difference in British sf pulp cinema	57	(18)
STEVE CHIBNALL
5 'A stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one': John Wyndham on screen	75	(13)
ANDY SAWYER
6 Trashing London: the British colossal creature film and fantasies of mass destruction	88	(11)
IAN CONRICH
7 The Day the Earth Caught Fire	99	(14)
I.Q. HUNTER
8 Adapting telefantasy: the Doctor Who and the Daleks films	113	(15)
JOHN R. COOK
9 'A bit of the old ultra-violence': A Clockwork Orange	128	(10)
JAMES CHAPMAN
10 The British post-Alien intrusion film	138	(15)
PETER WRIGHT
11 Dream girls and mechanic panic: dystopia and its others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four	153	(16)
LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS
12 'No flesh shall be spared': Richard Stanley's Hardware	169	(12)
SUE SHORT
Filmography	181	(28)
Index	209