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Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema

Danny Peary

First published 1984
Publisher Doubleday
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art David Tamura
Pages 310
Price $17.95
ISBN 0385192029

First Edition. Printed in the United States of America. No price given.

Year Reviewer Publication
1984 Dan Chow Locus, #285 October 1984
1984 Elton T. Elliott Science Fiction Review, Winter 1984
1985 Peter Nicholls Foundation, #34 Autumn 1985
1985 Gary K. Wolfe Fantasy Review, January 1985
1985 Don D'Ammassa Science Fiction Chronicle, #64 January 1985
1985 Gene DeWeese Science Fiction Review, Spring 1985

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

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema Cover 1984 Doubleday Hardcover Nonfiction David Tamura [10]+310