- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Cassell Illustrated (6 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844036723
- ISBN-13: 978-1844036721
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 11.9 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 340,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the classic low-budget, space exploration Flash Gordon tales of the Saturday matinee serials to the slick, CGI-realized world of "The Matrix", science fiction films have long been pushing the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic. Take a classic cop chase, and set it on Mars. Think of a haunted house story, then add the Nostromo. Take the boy-meets-girl classic, then make them mutants.Turn the known world on its head, play with the laws of physics, and all the while hold your audience spellbound. With insight from critics, film historians, academics, and experts in the field, "101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die" offers a breadth of knowledge, insight, and passion to a century of close encounters, black holes, time-travel, dodgy outfits, distant planets, impossible quests, nuclear war, futuristic technology, inexplicable forces, spaceships, extraordinary monsters, subterranean societies, and fluorescent drinks - get a dog and don't list your name in the phone book.
About the Author
Steven Jay Schneider is a film critic, scholar, and producer with MA degrees in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from Harvard University and New York University, respectively. An expert in horror films, he is the general editor of the best-selling 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. He has written and and edited a number of books on the horror , including Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe (Fab Press), New Hollywood Violence (Manchester UP), 100 European Horror Films (British Film Institute), Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmares (Cambridge UP), Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh UP), and The Horror Film (Taschen). He has recently moved to Hollywood to produce movies of his own, including one with Wes Craven and the sequel to White Noise.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is fine for mainstream, and mostly U.S. films.
Not many 'Noughties' films included - or 'cult' films such as Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine'.
Much focus on older Sci-fi.
Not many 'Noughties' films included - or 'cult' films such as Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine'.
Much focus on older Sci-fi.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Its got a good list of movies and reviews them very well. The only trouble is locating some of the older movies on DVD. Chances are Aalot of them are unlikely to be remastered like Metropolis
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As a primer for those hoping for an overview of the best sci-fi movies to watch, this is not bad, but in my opinion it is marred by (a) an emphasis on US sci-fi movies (as one other reviewer has pointed out, there is no mention of Danny Boyle's "Sunshine", for example) and (b) some egregious omissions - Dr Strangelove, one of the very best sci-fi movies ever made, is mentioned only once in the text and has no main article. Other than that, it's readable and fun, although it does have a tendency to take itself a little too seriously.
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