Download e-book for kindle: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema (Historical by Keith M. Booker

By Keith M. Booker

ISBN-10: 0810855704

ISBN-13: 9780810855700

The historical past of technology fiction movie now spans greater than a hundred years, in which time greater than 1,000 technology fiction movies of assorted types were made. starting with the paintings of pioneering French filmmaker Georges MZli_s on the sunrise of the 20 th century and relocating via such silent motion pictures as Fritz Lang's vintage city, technological know-how fiction movie has had a protracted and eventful background that has taken it in lots of instructions yet that has moved the style inexorably ahead right into a admired position on the heart of the movie within the works of big-budget hitmakers like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Bay. The historic Dictionary of technology Fiction Cinema presents wide insurance of the folks, motion pictures, businesses, thoughts, issues, and subgenres that experience made technological know-how fiction cinema this type of important a part of global cinema. this is often performed via a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over three hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries. This quantity is designed to be obtainable and enlightening to enthusiasts of the style who easily need to know extra in regards to the motion pictures they so enjoy.

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