Description: The BFI Companion to Science Fiction offers a comprehensive A-Z listing of over 3000 fables, fantasies, and urgent scenarios of planetary crisis, reassessed by a team of experts from around the world. From the familiar classics to the previously overlooked and even downright outrageous, the Companion draws together a remarkable catalogue of the amazing and the amusing, and suggests some fresh and surprising interpretations both of the genre's history and of its most recent trends. It also breaks new ground by analyzing the influence not only of the established writers and directors who have fashioned the moods and concerns of science fiction cinema over the last century, but also the less well known talents, the designers, composers, cameramen and special effects magicians who have given shape and style to the probable, the possible, and the incredible. From Star Wars to The Demon Headmaster, this is a fascinating guide to the ways in which film and television have responded to -- and encouraged -- the fears, dreams and demands of their audiences.

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