Vivian Carol Sobchack
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This page is the accumulation of all extracts from Sobchack's epic tome (highly recommended; better yet, recommend that your library get a copy!!!!!) "The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film", by Vivian Carol Sobchack, LCCN PN'1995.9'S26'S57'1980, ISBN 0.498.02210.2 (Cranbury, NJ, 1980). The revised/expanded edition: "Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film", by Vivian Sobchack, LCCN PN'1995.9'.S26'S57'1987, ISBN 0.8044.6886.9 (Ungar, New York, 1987). On this page: {Stuff} (CONTENTS page of the book) {What is SF?}
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In this section: Contents of the Book, Films referenced, Preccesè: This remarkable book creates a *methodology* by which the SF genre can be approached. She covers films from 1950-1975. Abs fab! (tips towel 3 times; once to the woman, once to her work, and once to all those who seek the way of peace).Contents
(Pages 7 & 8 of Op.Cit) Acknowledgments, P.9 Introduction, P.11-13. 1. The Limits of Genre: Definitions and Themes (see {What is} below) What is SF?, P. 17 Literature and Film, P.20 Transylvania on Mars: Horron and SF, P.26 The Trouble with Creatures and Monsters, P.43 Magic, Science, and Religion: Towards Synthesis and Dfn, Pp.55-63. 2. Images of Wonder: The Look of SF, P. 64 Iconography, P.64 Visual Functions, P.87 The Alien, Pp.89-107. The Speculative The Extrapolative The Alienation of the Landscape, Pp.110-136. Subversion of the Landscape The Dehumanisation of Humans THe Alien and the Familiar: The Aesthetics of Collision, P.136-145. 3. THe Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Sounds of SF, Pp.146-222. At a loss for words, P.146. THe Transformation of Spoken Language, P.160. Humor, Parody, and Satire, P.162 Displaced Voices, P.178 Dialog as Ritual, P.186 Liturgy, P.196 The Word as Image, P.199 Non-verbal Sound, P.207 THe Music of the Spheres, P.207 Sound Effects, P.216 THe Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, P.222 Conclusion, P.223. Notes, P.225 Biblio, P.234 Index 241Films/Works Addressed
Note annexed with (Year; Director; Author) * = not in original list Abbot & Costello, ad nausium (Dir. Lamont; Written by ) The Absent Minded Professor (Stevenson; * Alien The Amazing Colossal Man (Gordon; ) Andromeda Strain (Wise; Crichton ) The Angry Red Planet (Melchior; The Atomic Kid (Martinson; Attack of the Puppet People (Gordon; * Back to the Future The Beast from 20_000 Fathoms (Louriè; * Being There (?; ; Kzinski ??sp??) The Best with a Million Eyes (Kramarsky; Beginning of the End (Gordon; Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Post; Author Paul Dehn (unpublished screenplay)) Bikini Beach (Asher; Black Scorpion (Ludwig; Blazing Saddles (Brooks; Pryor, et al) A Boy and His Dog (Jones; Ellison) * The Brother from Space Brother Orchid (Bacon; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene Catch-22 (; Heller) Cat Ballou (Silverstein; Cat Woman of the Moon (Hilton; Charly (Nelson; Chrismas in July (Sturges; Citizen Kane (Welles; City (;Simak; A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick; Burgess) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg; The Colossus of New York (Louriè; Colossus - The Forbin Project (Sargent; Jones) The Conquest of Space (Haskin; Paul Dehn (un-published screenplay)) Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Thompson; Countdown (Altman; Creation of the Humanoids (Barry; Creatrue from the Black Lagoon (Arnold; * Cyborg, 2087 Dark Star (Carpenter; The Day of the Dolphins (Nichols; The Day that Mars Invaded the Earth (Dexter; The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise; The Deadly Mantis (Juran; Destination Mooon (Pichel; Heinlein) Doc Savage (Anderson; Dracula (Browning; Dr. Goldfoot and the BGikini Machine (Taurog - featuring Vincent Price!) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mamoulian; Dr. Strangelove: (..) (1964; Kubrick; Stanley Kauffman) The Dunwich Horror (Haller; Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Sears; Escape from Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Taylor; Everything You wanted to know about Sex (..) (Allen; Allen, based on ??author??) Fahrenheit 4-5-1 (Truffaut; Bradbury) The Fearless Vampire Killers (Polanski; Five (Obler; Flash Gordon (in passim) Flesh Gordon (Ziehm & Beneveniste) - "X" sf The Fly (Neuman; Forbidden planet ( ; ;Block & Addler; Electronic Tonalities by [Louis and Bebe Barron]) The 4-D Man (Yeaworth; Frankenstein (Whale; Frogs (McCowan; Godzilla (Honda; The Groundstar Conspiracy (Johnson; Have Rocket, Will Travel (Rich; (Three Stooges!) Horror Of Party Beach (Tenney; 1964; House of Wax (de Toth; ) -- featuring Vincent Price I Married a Monster from Outerspace (Fowler, Jr.; ) - Gee, I thought she was from Dallas! The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold; * The Incredible Shriking Woman (; ) - featuring Lilli Tomlin! Invaders from Mars (Mensies; Invasion of the Body Snatchers () - feature Kevin ?name? Invasion of the Saucer Men (Cahn; Invasion of the Star Creatures (VeSota; The Invisible Boy (Nayfack; It came from Beneath the Sea (Gordon; It Came from Outer Space (Arnold; Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey; ) - featuring music by Bernard Herrmann Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Levin; Vernes!) Kronos (Neumann; ) The Leech Woman (Dein; Logan's Run (Anderson; Magnetic Monster (; Siodmak) The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer; Marooned (Sturges; Caddin? ) -- Master of the World (Witney; The Monitors (Shea; The Monolith Monsters (Sherwood; ! The Monster that Challenged the World (Laven; The Most Dangerous Man Alive (Dwan; The Mummy (Fruend; ) The Mummy ( ;2000?) Night of the Living Dead (Romero; The Omega Man (Sagal; On the Beach (Kramer; Panic in the Year Zero (Milland; Planet of the Apes ( ; Michael Wilson (un-published screenplay)) Red Planet Mars (Horner; Reptilicus (Pink; * Revelations (Royale; Royale) -- "X" sf Riders to the Stars (Carlson; Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Haskin; Rocketship X-M (Neumann; Seconds (Frankenheimer; Sergeant Deadhed, the Astronaut (Juran; Seven Days in May (Frankenheimer; The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Juran; Silent Running (Turnbull; Sleeper (Allen; ;Allen) Soylent Green (Fleischer ; Stanley R. Greenberg (un-published screenplay)) The Space Children (Arnold; The Spider (Gordon; Star Wars (Lucas; The Stepford Wives (Forbes; Support Your Local Sherif (Kennedy; Tarantula (Arnold; The Terminal Man (Hodges; Them! (Douglas; The Thing (Nyby/Hawks; This Island Earth (Newman; The Three Stooges in Orbit (Bernds; TXH 1138 (Lucas; Time After Time (Meyers; The Time Machine (Pal; The Time Travelers (Melchior; Tobor the Great (Sholem; 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick; ;Kubrick/Clarke) The Twonky (Obler; War of the Colossal Beast (Gordon; War of the Worlds (Haskin; ;Welles) Way ... Way Out (Douglas; Westworld (Crichton; When Worlds Collide (Maté; Who Goes There? (Campbell; Wild in the Streets (Shear; The Well Man (Waggner; The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (MacDougal; X, The Man with the X-ray Eyes (Corman; Zardoz (Boorman; Next: What is SF? {Back to the TOP of this page}
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