Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality
This is an important new survey of a body of film. It offers plenty of new insights in a refreshingly jargon-free language. It will become a necessary companion for any serious viewer of SF film. -- Professor David Seed, School of English, University of Liverpool Christine Cornea's Science Fiction Cinema: between fantasy and reality takes its place in the list of rigorous studies of science fiction film that, if not foundational, are surely indispensable! All of Cornea's readings of science fiction films refine older readings and/or provide new insights, but Cornea is at her thought-provoking best when discussing lesser-studied films such as Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980), Hardware (Richard Stanley, 1990), and Nemesis 2: Nebula (Albert Pyun, 1995). What results is a work that is strikingly thorough, and it is hard for me to imagine the scholar or teacher who will not find this book an invaluable addition to the canon of science fiction film criticism. -- Brooks Landon, University of Iowa Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television This is an important new survey of a body of film. It offers plenty of new insights in a refreshingly jargon-free language. It will become a necessary companion for any serious viewer of SF film. Christine Cornea's Science Fiction Cinema: between fantasy and reality takes its place in the list of rigorous studies of science fiction film that, if not foundational, are surely indispensable! All of Cornea's readings of science fiction films refine older readings and/or provide new insights, but Cornea is at her thought-provoking best when discussing lesser-studied films such as Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980), Hardware (Richard Stanley, 1990), and Nemesis 2: Nebula (Albert Pyun, 1995). What results is a work that is strikingly thorough, and it is hard for me to imagine the scholar or teacher who will not find this book an invaluable addition to the canon of science fiction film criticism.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.