A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).
Introduction.-
1. Aelita.-
2. Alien.-
3. Alphaville.-
4. Altered
States.-
5. Avatar.-
6. Back to the Future.-
7. The Beast from 20,000
Fathoms.-
8. Blade Runner.-
9. Born in Flames.-
10. A Boy and His Dog.-
11.
Brazil.-
12. The Brother from Another Planet.-
13. The Cabin in the Woods.-
14. A Clockwork Orange.-
15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.-
16.
Colossus: The Forbin Project.-
17. The Damned.-
18. Dark City.-
19. Dark
Star.-
20. The Day the Earth Stood Still.-
21. Destination Moon.-
22.
District 9.-
23. Dune.-
24. Enemy Mine.-
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.-
26. Fahrenheit 451.-
27. Fantastic Voyage.-
28. The Fifth Element.-
29. Flash
Gordon (serial).-
30. The Fly.-
31. Forbidden Planet.-
32. Frankenstein.-
33.
Frau im mond (Woman in the Moon).-
34. Galaxy Quest.-
35. Ghost in the
Shell.-
36. Gojira (Godzilla).-
37. The Host.-
38. The Incredible Shrinking
Man.-
39. I Am Legend.-
40. Invaders from Mars.-
41. Invasion of the Body
Snatchers.-
42. The Invisible Man.-
43. Island of Lost Souls.-
44. La Jetée.-
45. Jurassic Park.-
46. Just Imagine.-
47. Last Night.-
48. Liquid Sky.-
49.
Mad Max.- 50. The Man Who Fell to Earth.-
51. Mars Attacks!.-
52. The
Matrix.-
53. Metropolis.-
54. Nineteen Eighty-Four.-
55. Paris qui dort.-
56.
Plan 9 from Outer Space.-
57. Planet of the Apes.-
58. Quatermass and the
Pit.-
59. The Quiet Earth.-
60. The Road.-
61. Robocop.-
62. Seconds.-
63.
Signs.-
64. Silent Running.-
65. The Silent Star.-
66. Slaughterhouse-Five.-
67. Sleep Dealer.-
68. Sleeper.-
69. Solaris.-
70. Soylent Green.-
71. Star
Trek: The Motion Picture.-
72. Star Wars.-
73. Starship Troopers.-
74.
Strange Days
75. Superman.-
76. The Terminator.-
77. Tetsuo: The Iron Man.-
78. Them!.-
79. They Live.-
80. The Thing from Another World.-
81. The Thing.-
82. Things
to Come.-
83. THX 1138.-
84. The Time Machine.-
85. Total Recall.-
86.
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America.-
87. Tron.-
88. The Tunnel.-
89. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.-
90. 2001: A Space Odyssey.-
91.
Videodrome.-
92. Village of the Damned.-
93. Le Voyage dans lune.-
94.
WALL-E.-
95. The War Game.-
96. The War of the Worlds.-
97. Westworld.-
98.
When Worlds Collide.-
99. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.-
100. Zardoz.-
Notes.- Further Reading.- Index.
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is an Elected Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the annual Pedagogy Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is the author of the BFI Film Classic on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2010), Film Genre: From Inconography to Ideology (2007), and co-author with Jim Hillier of 100 Documentary Films (2009).
