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  • The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader

    by J.P. Telotte ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    "A richly detailed and critically penetrating overview . . . from the plucky adventures of Captain Video to the postmodern paradoxes of The X-Files and Lost." —Rob Latham, coeditor of Science Fiction StudiesExploring such hits as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost, among others, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approach... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction Theatre

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Embark on an odyssey through the series that galvanized the television sci-fi anthology genre.In the wake of the juvenile space operas of the early 1950s, a groundbreaking series debuted and paved the way for one of viewers' favorite genres today: adult-oriented science fiction. Science Fiction Theatre aired with a fresh anthology-style narrative from the vision of veteran producer Ivan Tors and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disney TV

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    A historical account of the context, impact, and legacy of one of the most successful series in American television history.This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network television series Disneyland/The Wonderful World of Color. The series, part of Walt Disney's quest to re-create American entertainment, premiered October 27, 1954 on ABC and was the longest-lived ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selling Science Fiction Cinema

    Making and Marketing a Genre

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These conditions, the leading media ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction. In contemporary film, science fiction is a key locus both for displaying and for imaginatively addressing social and cultural issues. Today, popular modes of this cinema have transformed the nature of the genre, directly incorporating pressing concerns about racial ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Giving the Devil His Due

    Satan and Cinema

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Regina M. Hansen, Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder0, R. Barton Palmer1, Carl H. Sederholm2, David Sterritt3, J.P. Telotte4 ...
    **Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (**Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Animating Space

    From Mickey to WALL-E

    by J.P. Telotte ...
    Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision of what to include and leave out raises important questions about artistry, authorship, and cultural influence. In Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E, renowned scholar J. P. Telotte explores how animation has confronted the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories, this book traces this early relationship between film and literature through four common features: stories that involve film or the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Science Fiction TV

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    Series series Routledge Television Guidebooks
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film

    by J. P. Telotte ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Film Studies
    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. While the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Animating the Science Fiction Imagination

    by J.P. Telotte ...
    Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Digital Storytelling

    The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film

    by Shilo T. McClean ...
    How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about ... Read more

    $28.99 USD