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Telotte illuminates Science Fiction Theatre as a touchstone for understanding the development of science fiction media and the dynamic nature of early television broadcasting.

Essays in The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas address the impact of new theoretical approaches and recent cultural attitudes on a changing science fiction cinema. Essay topics include (but are not limited to) Afrofuturism, biopunk science fiction, feminist science fiction, heterotopic spaces, steampunk cinema, ethno-Gothic films, superhero cinema, queer theory, and posthumanism.

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narrative formulas, or character types for the almost surreal pleasure to be found in their sudden juxtapositions or narrative combination.

This book examines the impact that the new art of film had on another new form, science fiction, especially as it was embodied in the various pulp magazines where the genre first began to establish its identity and key themes. It argues that a film consciousness helped shape, even define 20th century science fiction.

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key concerns of contemporary culture over the last century, but also with the very nature of film.

The book examines the difficulty of adapting from one screen medium to another by looking at both successful and unsuccessful efforts in the area of science fiction. Those difficult efforts at moving from film to TV and from TV to film reveal much about the technologies involved and this highly technological genre as well.

From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name.

A groundbreaking study of the cult film

Science fiction films celebrate and critique the impact of a burgeoning technology on the world's cultural, political, and social milieu.

J.P. Telotte examines the history of the Disney television series while placing it in context - the film industry's reaction to television in the post-World War II era, the Disney Studios' place in the American entertainment industry, and Walt Disney's dream to create the modern theme park.

The American film noir, the genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940's and 1950's, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and created unique narrative structures to speak of that darkness.

A robotic history of the Science Fiction Film.

The first in the Routledge Television Guidebooks series, Science Fiction TV offers an introduction to the versatile and evolving genre of science fiction television, combining historical overview with textual readings to analyze its development and ever-increasing popularity.J. P. Telotte discusses science fiction's cultural progressiveness and the breadth of its technological and narrative possibilities, exploring SFTV from its roots in the p...

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key concerns of contemporary culture over the last century, but also with the very nature of film.

Edited collection examining the relationship between science fiction and the formation of cult cinema.

How Disney used the latest technology to become an entertainment powerhouse

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Exploring early hits such as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, as well as more recent successes such as Battlestar Galactica and Lost, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a p...

Telotte estudia uno de los generos mas inveterados y populares del cine de Hollywood, sugiriendo que este genero cinematografico refleja las actitudes hacia la ciencia, la tecnologia y la razon que se han desrrollado en la cultura americana a lo largo del siglo XX. Proporciona una panoramica del genero desde sus primeras manifestaciones literarias hasta el presente.

With skyrocketing gas prices, an economic recession, and the developing presence of chemically altered food, the state of our planet is a growing concern. Going "green" and organic are two of the newest trends intended to decrease our negative impact on the environment and reverse existing damage. The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics explores the significance of agrarian philosophy for modern agriculture and our transit...