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The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the 'final frontier' of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures. This guide explains how everything from the philosophy of Plato to classic Victorian tales and cult comic books have helped to create one of cinema's most engaging genres. Discover the classics from Mexico, Russia and Japan, not forgetting the Anime science fiction tradition, along with everything else you need to know from Metropolis to Star Wars, via Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien. The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is your essential guide to a galaxy of film unbounded by time or space. (Verlagstext)

 

Contents:

Introductions

The Origins: science fiction literature

The History: a warp-speed tour of sci-fi film

The Canon: 50 sci-fi classics

The Icons: faces of sci-fi films

Crossover: blurring sci-fi

The Science: theories that fuel sci-fi

The Locations: star tours

Global: sci-fi film around the world

Information: the wider picture

Picture credits

Index