The spacesuit film a history, 1918-1969 /
"This critical history comprehensively examines science fiction films that portray space travel realistically by having characters wear spacesuits. It discusses classics; innumerable films which gesture toward realism but betray that goal with melodramatic villains, low comedy, or improbably mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: pre-flight briefing
- First flights: the early films
- The true frontier: the classic films
- Wild adventures: the melodramatic films
- Ships of fools: the humorous films
- Space frights: the horrific films
- Parallel flight paths: the foreign-language films
- From reel to real: the rebirth and death of the films
- Return to Earth: films after 1969.