100 Science Fiction Films

Barry Keith Grant

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781844574575
• eBook ISBN: 9781838714079
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, fromUn voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).

Index

À bout de souffle here

Abbott and Costello here

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein here

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man here–here

Abominable Snowman, The here

Abrams, J. J. here

Abyss, The here, here, here

action films here, here–here, here, here

Adjuster, The here

Adjustment Bureau, The here

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The here

Adventures of Superman here

Adventures of Superman, The here

Aelita here–here, here, here

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence here, here

Albert, Eddie here

Aldiss, Brian here

Alice here

Alice in Wonderland (2010) here

Alien here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Alien Nation here, here, here

Alien Resurrection here

Alien vs. Predator here

Aliens here, here, here, here

Alien³ here

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem here

Alive in Joburg here

All About Eve here

All Monsters Attack here

Allemagne 90 neuf zéro here

Allen, Dede here

Allen, Tim here

Allen, Woody here–here

Alligator here

Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution here–here, here, here, here

Altered States here–here

Altman, Robert here

Alyn, Kirk here

Amazing Colossal Man, The here, here

Amazing Criswell, The here

Amigo here

Amityville here-D here

Ancient Aliens here

And Now the Screaming Starts! here

Anderson,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Aelita, Yakov Protazanov, 1924
• Alien, Ridley Scott, 1979
• Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
• Altered States, Ken Russell, 1980
• Avatar, James Cameron, 2009
• Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis, 1985
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Eugène Lourié, 1953
• Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
• Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, 1983
• A Boy and His Dog, L.Q. Jones, 1975
• Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
• The Brother from Another Planet, John Sayles, 1984
• The Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard, 2012
• A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg, 1977
• Colossus: The Forbin Project, Joseph Sargent, 1970
• The Damned, Joseph Losey, 1963
• Dark City, Alex Proyas, 1998
• Dark Star, John Carpenter, 1974
• The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise, 1951
• Destination Moon, Irving Pichel, 1950
• District 9, Neill Blomkamp, 2009
• Dune, David Lynch, 1984
• Enemy Mine, Wolfgang Petersen, 1985
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg, 1982
• Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, 1966
• Fantastic Voyage, Richard Fleischer, 1966
• The Fifth Element, Luc Besson, 1997
• Flash Gordon (serial), Frederick Stephani, 1936
• The Fly, David Cronenberg, 1986
• Forbidden Planet, Fred M. Wilcox, 1956
• Frankenstein, James Whale, 1931
• Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon), Fritz Lang, 1929
• Galaxy Quest, Dean Parisot, 1999
• Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii, 1995
• Gojira (Godzilla), Ishirô Honda, 1954
• The Host, Joon-ho Bong, 2006
• I Am Legend, Francis Lawrence, 2007
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jack Arnold, 1957
• Invaders from Mars, William Cameron Menzies, 1953
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
• The Invisible Man, James Whale, 1933
• Island of Lost Souls, Erle C. Kenton, 1932
• La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962
• Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg, 1993
• Just Imagine, David Butler, 1930
• Last Night, Don McKellar, 1998
• Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman, 1983
• Mad Max, George Miller, 1979
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
• Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton, 1996
• The Matrix, Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1999
• Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, Michael Radford, 1984
• Paris qui dort, René Clair, 1925
• Plan 9 from Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr, 1959
• Planet of the Apes, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968
• Quatermass and the Pit, Roy Ward Baker, 1967
• The Quiet Earth, Geoff Murphy, 1985
• The Road, John Hillcoat, 2009
• RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven, 1987
• Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
• Signs, M. Night Shyamalan, 2002
• Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, 1972
• The Silent Star, Kurt Maetzig, 1960
• Slaughterhouse-Five, George Roy Hill, 1972
• Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, 2008
• Sleeper, Woody Allen, 1973
• Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972
• Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer, 1973
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Robert Wise, 1979
• Star Wars, George Lucas, 1977
• Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven, 1997
• Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow, 1995
• Superman, Richard Donner, 1978
• The Terminator, James Cameron, 1984
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, 1989
• Them!, Gordon Douglas, 1954
• They Live, John Carpenter, 1988
• The Thing from Another World, Christian Nyby, 1951
• The Thing, John Carpenter, 1982
• Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies, 1936
• THX 1138, George Lucas, 1971
• The Time Machine, George Pal, 1960
• Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, 1990
• Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, Craig Baldwin, 1992
• Tron, Steven Lisberger, 1982
• The Tunnel, Maurice Elvey, 1935
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Richard Fleischer, 1954
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
• Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983
• Village of the Damned, Wolf Rilla, 1960
• Le Voyage dans la lune, Georges Méliès, 1902
• WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, 2008
• The War Game, Peter Watkins, 1965
• The War of the Worlds, Byron Haskin, 1953
• Westworld, Michael Crichton, 1973
• When Worlds Collide, Rudolph Maté, 1951
• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Roger Corman, 1963
• Zardoz, John Boorman, 1974
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index
• List of Illustrations
• eCopyright