Unfortunately most of the science fiction films of the 1970s were not much influenced by 2001 A Space Odyssey. Skillfully directed by Stanley Kubrick, 2001. which appeared in 1968, set new standards for science fiction films. During the next decade, every one of the dozens of science fiction...
Why focus on the "long 1970s," as [MARC Butler] (Canterbury Christ Church Univ., UK) does in Solar Flares? Because science fiction in the 1970s focused on the "ideological battlegrounds" (over civil rights, women's liberation, gay rights, and so on) of the time. It was also a ...
We re-examine science fiction films of the 1950s (made during the cold war), and their remakes in the 1970s and 1980s (made in the post-sixties, after Vietnam and Watergate) in conjunction with stories told by social scientists during the same eras. In this light. we provide a ...
The first half of the 1970'swas a fallow period for Science Fiction modeling. The Irwin Allen shows had all been cancelled."Star Trek"lived -- but only in syndication."2001: A Space Odyssey"had set the SPFX bar so high that no other movie-maker even attempted to hurdle it. We'd bee...
The SUICIDE SQUAD. DC has another go If at first you don't succeed, get a disgraced director to have a go. James Gunn, director of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY films takes on rival comic book crew DC's own team of reprobates in The SUICIDE SQUAD. The worst of the worst (along with...
From the early days of Japan’s modern period, apocalyptic narratives warned of problems caused by progressivism and modernization: ecological change, economic gaps between advanced and less advanced nations, exploitation of the lower classes, and confli
【题目】Science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s predict ed that pills would replace meals as the way i n which people would get the fuel they needed.T his, it was argued, would mean a more effi cient use of time as people wouldn't have to waste it preparing or eating meals. The ...
1. Brief History of Hong Kong Science Fiction Films 纵观香港文化语境中的科幻文化,可以发现其根基比人们所认为的更加深厚。尽管科幻电影未能跻身香港主流电影类型的前列,但好莱坞、日本及苏联的科幻电影在香港放映却十分普遍。例如,本多猪四郎执导的《地球防卫军》(1957)、《恐龙之子》(1955)和《氢弹怪物》(1958)...
War die Science-Fiction (SF) bis 1950 in Hollywood kaum präsent und in den folgenden zwei Jahrzehnten primär ein Billig-Genre, bildet sie heute in der Form crossmedialer Franchises eine der tragenden Säulen der großen Hollywood-Studios. Zugle
This chapter is in the book Apartheid Remains 5The Science Fiction of Apartheid’s Spatial Fix, 1948–1970sThe most important practical issue in race zoning is: Where will the people go who are now living in areas zoned for another race, and how will they re- establish themselves? Our il...