The spacesuit film : a history, 1918-1969 / Gary Westfahl ; foreword by Michael Cassutt

• Introduction: pre-flight briefing -- First flights: the early films -- The true frontier: the classic films -- Wild adventures: the melodramatic films -- Ships of fools: the humorous films -- Space frights: the horrific films -- Parallel flight paths: the foreign-language films -- From reel to real: the rebirth and death of the films -- Return to Earth: films after 1969.

• Summary: "This critical history comprehensively examines science fiction films that portray space travel realistically by having characters wear spacesuits. It discusses classics; innumerable films which gesture toward realism but betray that goal with melodramatic villains, low comedy, or improbably monsters; the distinctive spacesuit films of Western Europe, Russia and Japan; and America's televised Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)"--Provided by publisher 

Ämnesord

Rymdfarkoster på film  (sfit)

Sciencefictionfilm  (sfit)

Science fiction films  -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Space flights in motion pictures  (LCSH)

Outer space in motion pictures  (LCSH)

Astronauts in motion pictures  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Science-fiction films

Space movies

Klassifikation

PN1995.9.S26 (LCC)

791.43 (DDC)

Ima (kssb/8 (machine generated))