The Science Fiction Film Reader

by Rickman, Gregg

• ISBN13: 9780879109943
• ISBN10: 0879109947
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: LIMELIGHT EDITIONS

Summary

An illustrated collection of essays by masters such as H.G. Wells, Luis Bunuel, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur C. Clarke, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Campbell, Pauline Kael, George F. Will, Robin Wood, and Susan Sontag.

Author Biography

Gregg Rickman'scritical essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, Science Fiction Studies, and Wrapped in Plastic, and in the 1998 anthology Twin Peaks Revisited

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
PART I FOUNDATIONS
Trick Effects
Georges Méliès (1907)	2	(3)
Mr.Wells Reviews a Current Film
H.G.Wells (1927)	5	(8)
Metropolis
Luis Buñuel (1927)	13	(3)
Wells the Visionary
Jorge Luis Borges (1936)	16	(4)
PART 2 ADVENTURES IN OUTER SPACE
Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon)
A. Kraszna-Krausz (1929)	20	(2)
Destination Moon: Real Science Fiction and the Real World
Brian Doherty (2004)	22	(11)
Moon Pilot
Ken Bowers (2004)	33	(8)
Starship Troopers
Michael Lennick (1998)	41	(9)
PART 3 THE 1950's
The Day the Earth Stood Still: Interview with Robert Wise
Tom Weaver (1988)	50	(10)
"This Means Something!" Invaders from Mars
Vincent di Fate (2004)	60	(8)
U-I Sci-Fi: Studio Aesthetics and 1950's Metaphysics
Blake Lucas (2004)	68	(30)
PART 4 IMAGINING DISASTER
The Imagination of Disaster
Susan Sontag (1965)	98	(16)
D is for Doomsday: Five
Bob Stephens (2004)	114	(18)
Don Siegel on the Pod Society
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1976)	132	(8)
Nearer My Pod to Thee
J. Hoberman (1994)	140	(6)
PART 5 THE 1960's
The Damned
Dan Sallitt (2004)	146	(7)
Intonation Please: The Creation of the Humanoids
Chris Fujiwara (2004)	153	(12)
Signifying Monkeys: Politics and Story-Telling in The Planet of the Apes Series
Richard von Busack (2004)	165	(13)
PART 6 KUBRICK AND OTHERS
The Myth of 2001
Arthur C. Clarke (1969)	178	(3)
Alien Encounters: Science Fiction and the Mysterium in 2001, Solaris, and Contact
Karl Wessel (2004)	181	(29)
Juice from A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess (1972)	210	(5)
The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan Rosenbaum (2001)	215	(11)
PART 7 STAR WARS
"The Man Understands the Metaphor": Joseph Campbell on Star Wars
Phil Cousineau and Stuart L. Brown (1990)	226	(3)
Not So Long Ago and Far Away: Star Wars, Republics and Empires of Tomorrow
Doug Williams (2004)	229	(25)
PART 8 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
Steven Spielberg on E.T.
Mike Sragow (2004)	254	(7)
The Pure and the Impure
Pauline Kael (1982)	261	(5)
Well, I Don't Love You, E.T.
George F.Will (1982)	266	(4)
PART 9 THE FILMS OF PHILIP K. DICK
"They Did Sight Stimulation on My Brain": Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner
Gregg Rickman (1984, 1991)	270	(10)
Blade Runner
Robin Wood (1986)	280	(7)
"I Think, Therefore I Am"-Cartesian Motifs in the Filmed Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
Gregg Rickman (2004)	287	(25)
PART 10 CYBORG CINEMA
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Joe Dante (1970)	312	(3)
Bodies Without Organs: Cyborg Cinema of the 1980's
Hassan Melehy (1995/2004)	315	(20)
Reproducing Ripley
Carina Dielissen (2001/2004)	335	(9)
PART 11 TRAVELS IN TIME AND PLACE
Modernity and Mise-en-Scene: Terry Gilliam and Brazil
Keith Hamel (1998)	344	(11)
Time Travel and Spectatorship in 12 Monkeys and Strange Days
Laura Rascaroli (2001)	355	(14)
The Philosophy of Time Travel: Back to the Future Again, or The Last Temptation of Donnie Darko
Gregg Rickman (2004)	369	(13)
PART 12 GODS AND ALIENS
Joe Dante's American Apocalypse
Bill Krohn (1999)	382	(4)
Discourse on Sovereignity: The Truman Show
E.J. Park (2001)	386	(4)
Real Men Wear Black:The Men in Black Films
Aneta Chapman (2004)	390	(7)
Signs of Spiritual Life (or Why You Are the Alien Species)
Read Mercer Schuchardt (2004)	397	(9)
The Matrix, or the Two Sides of Perversion
Slavoj Zizek (2002)	406