Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film

Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film

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Screening Space deserves the attention of everyone in our field. It is an important book, a groundbreaking book, an indispensable book for critics of SF film, SF, or contemporary mass culture. Read it and you will never view SF film in quite the same way again.Science Fiction StudiesA brilliant book, the best book yet on the American SF film.-Fantasy Review

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Paperback, 352 pages
Published September 1st 1997 by Rutgers University Press (first published 1980)
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John Stephen
Thoughtful articles about SF that go way beyond the common movie mag stuff, more into deep ethical dilemnas in SOLARIS and such.
Jeff Eisenberg
Great read-all about Sci-Fi tropes-if you like that sort of thing.
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