- Hardcover: 366 pages
- Publisher: Columbia University Press (15 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903364884
- ISBN-13: 978-1903364888
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17 x 3.3 cm
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Book Description
Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader is the first extended collection of previously published essays on science fiction film and television. This Reader brings together a great number of seminal essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It is divided into eight distinct themed sections and includes important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J. P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley amongst others, writing on films such as Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars, Total Recall, Them! and The Thing.
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About the Author
Sean Redmond is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Southampton Institute, UK, co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor(Wallflower Press, 2003) and contributor to Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide (2002).
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Film School Nightmare
12 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
Before going to film school, I thought that sci-fi movies were sci-fi movies. When I went to film school, I discovered that sci-fi movies were not sci-fi movies. Now that I have graduated from film school, it turns out that sci-fi movies are sci-fi movies.
If you've been assigned this book for a class, don't worry, the professor doesn't understand a word of it either. It's really easy to BS if you just skim it and memorize the rhetoric. And if you're really stuck, just say, "Genre films reflect and represent society's collective fears and desires" and you'll probably pass the class with a 'C'
Take it from me, don't take any film classes. Godspeed.
If you've been assigned this book for a class, don't worry, the professor doesn't understand a word of it either. It's really easy to BS if you just skim it and memorize the rhetoric. And if you're really stuck, just say, "Genre films reflect and represent society's collective fears and desires" and you'll probably pass the class with a 'C'
Take it from me, don't take any film classes. Godspeed.
3 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Repetition
1 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is broken down into different case studies or critical essays. It is 100% on critical theories. The editor tends to repeat himself incessantly in each chapter (I've even seen a whole two sentences repeatedly word for word). The good part is he keeps up with contemporary films and critiques them with as much enthusiasm as the oldies, but to get the basics of his point, all you need to do is skim each chapter and read the topic sentences. He likes to talk just for the sake of talking.
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