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Nonfiction Title:
Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema • nonfiction by Danny Peary
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- [9] • Preface (Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies) • essay by Danny Peary [as by Dan Peary]
- 1 • Introduction: Lurching Down Memory Lane with It, Them, The Thing, Godzilla, HAL 9000 ... That Whole Crowd: An Overview of the Science Fiction Cinema • (1984) • essay by Harlan Ellison
- 17 • Welcoming the Future • (1984) • essay by Joan Mellen
- 33 • Thoughts on How Science Fiction Films Depict the Future • (1984) • essay by Nicholas Meyer
- 35 • Survivors: The Day After Doomsday • (1984) • essay by Robert C. Cumbow
- 43 • The Metropolis Wars: The City As Character in Science Fiction Films • (1984) • essay by Philip Strick
- 50 • Movie Science • (1984) • essay by Isaac Asimov
- 56 • Sex in Science Fiction Films: Romance or Engineering? • (1984) • essay by David Thomson (1941- )
- 67 • Prometheus: The Scientist and His Creations • (1984) • essay by Robert C. Cumbow
- 77 • The Fear of Intelligence in Futuristic Films • (1984) • essay by David Thomson (1941- )
- 85 • The Master and Metropolis • (1984) • essay by Robert Bloch
- 90 • The Demi-Docs: Just Imagine and Things to Come • (1984) • essay by Frederik Pohl
- 97 • Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers • (1984) • interview of Buster Crabbe • interview by Danny Peary
- 102 • Heinlein on Film: Destination Moon • (1984) • essay by Michael Goodwin (I)
- 107 • 1984: Orwell Compromised • (1984) • essay by Allen Ayles
- 112 • Superego Confrontation on Forbidden Planet • (1984) • essay by Martin Sutton
- 117 • On the Beach: A Renewed Interest • (1984) • essay by Stanley Kramer
- 120 • The Jules Verne Influence on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea • (1984) • essay by Charles Bennett
- 124 • "The Seventh Victim" and the "Tenth Victim" • (1984) • essay by Robert Sheckley
- 127 • Fahrenheit 451: From Novel to Film • (1984) • essay by Gerald Peary
- 133 • No Blade of Grass: A Warning for Our Time • (1984) • essay by Cornel Wilde
- 138 • A New Beginning on Terminal Island • (1984) • essay by Stephanie Rothman
- 143 • A Cannibalized Novel Becomes Soylent Green • (1984) • essay by Harry Harrison
- 147 • The Remaking of Dark Star • (1984) • essay by Dan O'Bannon
- 152 • Death Race 2000: New World's Violent Future • (1984) • essay by Paul Bartel
- 158 • Playing Ripley in Alien • (1984) • interview of Sigourney Weaver • interview by Danny Peary
- 167 • Battle Beyond the Stars: Notes From a Tacky Galaxy • (1984) • essay by John Sayles
- 171 • Outland: Out of its Mind But, Sadly, Not Out of Sight • (1984) • essay by Harlan Ellison
- 178 • Cafe Flesh: Midnight Hit for a Pornographic Age • (1984) • essay by Jerry Stahl
- 187 • The Way the Future Looks: Blade Runner and THX-1138 • (1984) • essay by Robert Silverberg
- 193 • WarGames and the Real World • (1984) • essay by John Badham
- 199 • Designing the Future • (1984) • essay by Syd Mead
- 214 • Creating Tomorrow Today: SF's Special Effects Wizards • (1984) • essay by Frederik Pohl, IV
- 224 • The Special Effectiveness of George Pal • (1984) • essay by Robert Bloch
- 233 • Cautionary Fables • (1984) • interview of Roger Corman • interview by Ed Naha
- 238 • The Futuristic Films of Stanley Kubrick • (1984) • essay by Richard Schickel
- 246 • Peter Watkins: Political and Pessimistic • (1984) • essay by Sally Hibbin
- 250 • When Men and Machines Go Wrong • (1984) • interview of Michael Crichton • interview by Danny Peary
- 260 • The Inner Search for Spock • (1984) • interview of Leonard Nimoy • interview by Ed Naha
- 268 • Mathemagicians: Computer Moviemakers of the 1980s and Beyond • (1984) • essay by Tim Onosko
- 279 • Directing Mad Max and The Road Warrior • (1984) • interview of George Miller • interview by Danny Peary
- 287 • Andrei Tarkovsky: Russia's Science Fiction Poet • (1984) • essay by Michael Wilmington
- 293 • Directing Alien and Blade Runner • (1984) • interview of Ridley Scott • interview by Danny Peary
- 303 • Checklist of Futuristic Films • (1984) • essay by uncredited
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