Product Description: Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828–1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth...read more

Product Description: Out of more than 180 science fiction films produced in the United States between 1950 and 1959, twenty were concerned with the notion of an invasion. Of these, a select number used the invasions as metaphors of issues that were of importance to America at the time, such as assaults upon individuality and marriage and debates about the supremacy of the human race...read more

'Perhaps no film genres attracted more rabid fans and less critical acclaim than the horror and science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s. The men and women who made the characters come to life are interviewed here, talking about their work, the behind-the-scenes action, and the impact the movies had on their careers'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues, George shows how they often played out as another round in the battle of the sexes...read more

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences on the sets of some of the world's most beloved sci-fi and horror movies and television series. Including groundbreaking oldies (Flash Gordon, One Million B...read more

Product Description: American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of H...read more

Kathleen Hughes agreeably said of her roles, "It was easy to be bad. I loved those parts." In his eighth interview book, Tom Weaver has found 22 other equally agreeable stars and filmmakers who, like Hughes, loved the science fiction and horror (and some other) film roles that made it easy to be bad. They have been a part of such films as The Blob, Tarzan the Ape Man, Star Trek, It Came from Outer Space, The Wild Wild West, Somewhere in Time, The Fly (1957), and Forbidden Plant. Among those interviewed are Kate Phillips, John Alvin, Alex Gordon, Tod Griffin, Denny Miller, Andrey Dalton, Warren Stevens, Suzanne Kaaren, and David Hedison. Full credits are provided for the actors, actresses, and producers.

Product Description: This collection of original interviews, appropriate for libraries and fans alike, provides first-hand accounts from many of the entertainment industry's most influential writers, filmmakers, and entertainers. Interviewees include horror film icons Elvira and Herschell Gordon Lewis; world-renowned science fiction and fantasy authors, among them Ray Bradbury, Laurell K...read more

'From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors familiar to fans of sixties cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex symbols (Valerie Leon), surfers who became movie stars (Don Stroud), and action heroes (Fred Williamson), among many others. Each interview is accompanied by a biography and filmography'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Offering a broad historical and theoretical reassessment of science fiction, Christine Cornea explores the development of this popular genre in cinema from its very beginnings to the present day. Each chapter offers analyses of particular films, situating them within a wider historical/cultural context while also highlighting a specific key thematic issue...read more

Product Description: The march of the monster movie makers continues in Tom Weaver's ninth book of in-depth interviews with the men and women who made the horror and sci-fi favorites of the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Actors (including Mike Connors, Brett Halsey, Natalie Trundy and Richard Kiel), writers, producers and directors recall legendary genre figures Lugosi, Chaney, Jr...read more

In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard s notion of dread that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film s particular monster, whether human, demonic, or eschatological."