Science Fiction Film (Genres in American Cinema)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521593724
Subjects: Films, cinema; Politics/International Relations; Mass Media; Current Affairs; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Film & Video - General; Mass Media - General; Media Studies; Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Performing Arts-Mass Media - General; Science fiction films--History and criticism; Social Science-Media Studies; History and criticism; Science fiction films
First sentence: Whenever students of film approach the science fiction genre, it appears they immediately find themselves facing a kind of paradox, one akin to the problematic logic built into the form's combinatory designation - that is, as science and fiction, as fact and fabrication.