Description: "A rigorous film history of a crucial but generally overlooked period in the development of science fiction film which transcends genre concerns to argue the importance of Machine Age cinema in the Soviet Union, Germany, France, England and the United States in the cultural construction of technology during the 1920s and 1930s. A Distant Technology argues powerfully for centrality of film in general- and the science fiction film in particular- to the cultural construction of technology in the Western World."--Brooks London, University of Iowa "A rigorous film history of a crucial but generally overlooked period in the development of science fiction film which transcends genre concerns to argue the importance of Machine Age cinema in the Soviet Union, Germany, France, England and the United States in the cultural construction of technology during the 1920s and 1930s. A Distant Technology argues powerfully for centrality of film in general- and the science fiction film in particular- to the cultural construction of technology in the Western World."--Brooks London, University of Iowa " A Distant Technology provides generous international coverage of the science fiction films of the 20's and 30s, introducing readers to a fascinating array of both familiar and lesser known films. It is an enjoyable and enlightening journey through modernism's utopian and dystopian dreams of technology, dreams which we are still in the process of interpreting today."--Veronica Hollinger, Trent University

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