Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? This second volume covers various classic science fiction films from the 1950s that feature humanity’s tentative and often dangerous steps into the great unknown realm of outer space.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? The many ways by which human civilization could be brought to a crashing end have from time to time been the subject of science fiction films. In the 1950s and throughout the Cold War period, the threat of nuclear annihilation was for many people a very real prospect. This 7th volume of the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta series: “The End Is Nigh,” features sci-fi films of the 1950s that depict end-of-the-world scenarios as well as post apocalyptic and dystopian futures.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? This volume of the “Sci-Fi Film Fiesta” series: VOLUME 3: OTHER WORLDS feature classic science fiction films from the 1950s that present imaginative scenarios involving humanity’s exploration of alien worlds.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? Although this 10th volume in the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta eBook series features only a handful of films from the 1950s, they have all managed to achieve a kind of iconic status and a level of cultural significance. Collectively, the five featured films serve as a metaphor for much of the human condition and are therefore of relevance to audiences of any era.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? The classic science fiction films from the 1950s in this volume 8 “Big Bugs and Crazy Critters” of the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta eBook series, deal with forces of nature going haywire and seeming to strike back at humanity with a veritable menagerie of colossal critters, reminding us just how insignificant and powerless we are in the face of forces over which we really have little control. If humanity is not more careful, it could very well be…..The Beginning of the End!
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 11th volume “A Tribute To….” of the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta series is dedicated to the actors, directors, producers, special effects artists, writers and other involved in the pioneering work of science fiction movie making. Part 1: A Tribute To…. focuses on some of the prominent directors, producers, actors and special effects people involved in science fiction films of the 1950s. Brief biographical information is provided on each one, along with their contribution to the pioneering work of sci-fi film-making in the 1950s. Part 2: A Tribute To Classic Sci-Fi Ladies provides a brief introduction to each of the female co-stars and supporting actors in the films featured in the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta eBook series. Part 3: A Tribute To Science Fiction Authors references some of the works of fiction that inspired and were adapted into various classic 1950s sci-fi films.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers from the ‘golden age’ of science fiction films of the 1950s. The films in this volume feature monsters that stand as metaphors for the fears of the time when people had genuine concerns about atomic power and the atom bomb’s potential for the first time in human history to bring about the end of human civilisation. For instance, in the case of Godzilla (1954) the film is an allegory for the destruction and devastation unleashed on Japan by the atomic bomb, with the 400-foot-tall mutant dinosaur Gojira, serving as the visual metaphor. Such monsters represent forces of nature awakened by human science that once brought into being cannot be controlled.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? The classic science fiction films featured in this volume of the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta series: "Volume 6 – Invasion," played on the fears and paranoia prevalent during the Cold War period. But what if our planet was to be actually subjected to an alien invasion, incursion of infestation? Could it happen? If so, what then could happen?
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the “Sci-Fi Film Fiesta” series: VOLUME 4: JOURNEYS WITHIN features classic science fiction films from the 1950s that depict strange and exotic worlds that await discovery deep within the bowels of the earth and deep down in the fathomless depths of our oceans. Let’s now turn our gaze from the heavens and peer into worlds within a world that may exist under our very noses.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9th volume “Accidents & Experiments” of the Sci-Fi Film Fiesta eBook series features classic science fiction films from the 1950s whose subject matter involves discoveries and breakthroughs made through experiments or even by sheer accident. The important point about such discoveries, though are the consequences that result from them. The collection of entertaining cautionary sci-fi screen tales from the 1950’s raise interesting questions about humanity’s drive to command, control and master nature and treat it as if it exists purely for our own benefit, while often ignoring the price to be paid for doing so.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Last Volume 12 “Speculations & Ruminations” deals with various implications, themes and ideas that often arise out of the world of science fiction films and literature referenced in the other volumes of this eBook series. All of this material is organized into four broad sections: Part 1: “Going Forward” Part 2: “Dystopia Now” Part 3: “Poetic Ponderings” Part 4: “Sci-Fi Future Is here & Now” The content of this volume is intended to encourage a bit of thought and debate about the world we live in, the kind of future we would (and wouldn’t) wish for ourselves and for future generations, along with an appreciation of the sometimes abused, tenuous and fragile nature of what many of us take for granted such as freedom of thought and speech and our system democracy.
Download or read book Sci Fi Film Fiesta written by Chris Christopoulos and published by Chris Christopoulos. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science fiction films from the 1950s that feature in this volume imaginatively depict what could happen during a time of alien contact in the form of transmission of messages and visitations to the planet earth. Such films also serve to reflect the kinds of fears that were prevalent at the time as well as offering commentary concerning the state of human affairs on our own planet. It is interesting to note just how much of this can apply to our own era in the 21st century!
Download or read book Writing the Science Fiction Film written by Robert Grant and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is the most creative genre available for exploring the human condition and also the most profitable. Explore classic sci-fi films such as Blade Runner, Aliens, and Star Wars, while learning how to craft your own powerful new worlds.
Download or read book The Transition Years written by Hal C. F. Astell and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by film critic Hal C F Astell of the Apocalypse Later review site, covers every feature and every short film that screened at the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival in Tempe, AZ in 2011, 2012 and 2013. These were 'the transition years' as the festival merged into its big sister, the Phoenix Film Festival, and it was forced to reinvent itself. Inspired by the realisation many of his reviews of festival films were the only reviews that existed online and that some films had no presence left on the internet, as if they had never been, he aimed to review every film that played this festival, which holds a special place in his heart, and to compile these reviews into book form. This book, whatever else it is, is a line in the sand to say that these films existed, that they played a festival, were seen by an audience, even won awards. Hopefully reading about them here will keep some of them alive because no film deserves to die. No, not even that one. The foreword was written by Mike Flanagan, the director of Absentia and Oculus. The afterword was written by Andrea Canales, the Midnite Movie Mamacita. The cover is by Marty Freetage. Features reviewed include Absentia, Midnight Son, The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue, Triple Hit, Hisss, I am Nancy, The People vs George Lucas, Stake Land, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Below Zero, It's in the Blood, Folklore, Pig, Beyond the Black Rainbow, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, FDR: American Badass!, Monster Brawl, Slumber Party Slaughter, The Theatre Bizarre, The Victim, With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, Found, Nailbiter, Sader Ridge, Channeling, Found in Time, Space Milkshake, Errors of the Human Body, The Four, Gamera vs Guiron, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Kiss of the Damned, Play Dead, Saw and They Live. Short horror films reviewed include Zombiefication, I Rot, Last Seen on Dolores Street, Cold Sore, Bugbaby, Red Umbrella, Cell Phone Psycho, Escape, Shoreditch Slayer, Follow the Sun!, Brutal Relax, Bad Moon Rising, Ambush, The Table, Roid Rage, The Waking, Employee of the Month, Diecons, Game, The Root of the Problem, Steve from Accounting vs The Shadow Dwellers, Sybling Rivalry, Midnight Daisy, Welcome Wagon and Killer Kart. Short sci-fi films reviewed include The Island, Earthship, Picture Show at the End of the World, Roman's Ark, Earwigs, Antedon, The Hollow Men, SNAFU, The Turing Love Affair, The Recipient, Carry Tiger to the Mountain, The Uncanny Valley, Doctor Glamour, Hollywood Forever, Secret Identity, 20th Century Man, Solaria, Alchemy and Other Imperfections, Mirage, Y Sci Fi, How to Kill Your Clone, Anaphora, Outsight, Dream Cleaners, Dry Gulch, Ontogenesis, Ellie, A Conversation About Cheating with My Time Traveling Future Self, The Secret Keeper, Low Tide in the High Desert, Restitution, Iris, Odokuro, Sol, All I Think of is You, Quantum, Golem, Sunset Day, Flashback, White Room: 02B3 and The Phoenix.
Download or read book Travails with the Alien written by Satyajit Ray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray was a master of science fiction writing. Through his Professor Shonku stories and other fiction and non-fiction pieces, he explored the genre from various angles. In the 1960s, Ray wrote a screenplay for what would have been the first-of-its-kind sci-fi film to be made in India. It was called The Alien and was based on his own short story "Bonkubabur Bandhu". On being prompted by Arthur C. Clarke, who found the screenplay promising, Ray sent the script to Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, who agreed to back it, and Peter Sellers was approached to play a prominent role. Then started the "Ordeals of the Alien" as Ray calls it, as even after a series of trips to the US, UK and France, the film was never made, and more shockingly, some fifteen years later, Ray watched Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and later E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and realized these bore uncanny resemblances to his script The Alien, including the way the ET was designed! A slice of hitherto undocumented cinema history, Travails with the Alien includes Ray's detailed essay on the project with the full script of The Alien, as well as the original short story on which the screenplay was based. These, presented alongside correspondence between Ray and Peter Sellers, Arthur C. Clarke, Marlon Brando, Hollywood producers who showed interest, and a fascinating essay by the young student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism who broke the Spielberg story, make this book a rare and compelling read on science fiction, cinema and the art of adaptation.
Download or read book Science is Fiction written by Andy Masaki Bellows and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the work of maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve.
Download or read book Science Fiction Film Directors 1895 1998 written by Dennis Fischer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous and exhaustive reference book has entries on every major and minor director of science fiction films from the inception of cinema (circa 1895) through 1998. For each director there is a complete filmography including television work, a career summary, a critical assessment, and behind-the-scenes production information. Seventy-nine directors are covered in especially lengthy entries and a short history of the science fiction film genre is also included.
