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S CIENCE F ICTION F ILM

Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular

genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science ﬁction ﬁlm

reﬂects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have

evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century.

J. P. Telotte provides a survey of science ﬁction ﬁlm criticism, empha-

sizing humanist, psychological, ideological, feminist, and postmodern

critiques. He also sketches a history of the genre, from its earliest liter-

ary manifestations to the present, while touching on and comparing

it to pulp ﬁction, early television science ﬁction, and Japanese anime.

Telotte offers in-depth readings of four key ﬁlms: RoboCop, Close En-

counters of the Third Kind, THX 1138 , and The Fly, each of which illus-

trates a particular fantastic branch of science ﬁction, as well as the dif-

ficulties of any genre classiﬁcation. Challenging the boundaries usually

seen between high and low culture, literature and ﬁlm, science ﬁction

and horror, Science Fiction Film reasserts the central role of fantasy in

popular ﬁlms, even those concerned with reason, science, and tech-

nology.

J. P. Telotte is Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture at

the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books

including Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film and

A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age. He is

coeditor of the journal Post Script and a member of the editorial boards

of Literature/Film Quarterly and South Atlantic Review.

G ENRES IN A MERICAN C INEMA

General Editor

Barry Keith Grant, Brock University, Ontario, Canada

Genres in American Cinema examines the signiﬁcance of Amer-

ican ﬁlms in a series of single-authored volumes, each dedicated

to a different genre. Each volume will provide a comprehensive

account of its genre, from enduring classics to contemporary re-

visions, from marginal appropriations to international inﬂections,

emphasizing its distinctive qualities as well as its cultural, his-

torical, and critical contexts. Their approach will be methodolog-

ically broad, balancing theoretical and historical discussion with

close readings of representative ﬁlms. Designed for use as class-

room texts, the books will be intellectually rigorous, yet written

in a style that is lively and accessible to students and general

audiences alike.

Science Fiction Film [Genres in American Cinema] - J.P. Telotte.pdf