100 Science Fiction Films: BFI Screen Guides

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A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009). Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Aelita, 1924 Alien, 1979 Alphaville, 1965 Altered States, 1980 Avatar, 2009 Back to the Future, 1985 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, 1953 Blade Runner, 1982 Born in Flames, 1983 A Boy and His Dog, 1975 Brazil, 1985 The Brother from Another Planet, 1984 The Cabin in the Woods, 2012 A Clockwork Orange, 1971 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 Colossus: The Forbin Project, 1970 The Damned, 1963 Dark City, 1998 Dark Star, 1974 The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 Destination Moon, 1950 District 9, 2009 Dune, 1984 Enemy Mine, 1985 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 Fahrenheit 451, 1966 Fantastic Voyage, 1966 The Fifth Element, 1997 Flash Gordon (serial), 1936 The Fly, 1986 Forbidden Planet, 1956 Frankenstein, 1931 Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon), 1929 Galaxy Quest, 1999 Ghost in the Shell, 1995 Gojira (Godzilla), 1954 The Host, 2006 I Am Legend, 2007 The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957 Invaders from Mars, 1953 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 The Invisible Man, 1933 Island of Lost Souls, 1932 La Jetée, 1962 Jurassic Park, 1993 Just Imagine, 1930 Last Night, 1998 Liquid Sky, 1983 Mad Max, 1979 The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976 Mars Attacks!, 1996 The Matrix, 1999 Metropolis, 1927 Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984 Paris qui dort, 1925 Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959 Planet of the Apes, 1968 Quatermass and the Pit, 1967 The Quiet Earth, 1985 The Road, 2009 RoboCop, 1987 Seconds, 1966 Signs, 2002 Silent Running, 1972 The Silent Star, 1960 Slaughterhouse-Five, 1972 Sleep Dealer, 2008 Sleeper, 1973 Solaris, 1972 Soylent Green, 1973 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979 Star Wars, 1977 Starship Troopers, 1997 Strange Days, 1995 Superman, 1978 The Terminator, 1984 Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 1989 Them!, 1954 They Live, 1988 The Thing from Another World 1951 The Thing, 1982 Things to Come, 1936 THX 1138, 1971 The Time Machine, 1960 Total Recall, 1990 Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, 1992 Tron, 1982 The Tunnel, 1935 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 Videodrome, 1983 Village of the Damned, 1960 Le Voyage dans la lune, 1902 WALL-E, 2008 The War Game, 1965 The War of the Worlds, 1953 Westworld, 1973 When Worlds Collide, 1951 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, 1963 Zardoz, 1974 Notes Further Reading Index