By M. Keith Booker
The historical past of technology fiction movie now spans greater than a hundred years, within which time greater than 1,000 technological know-how fiction motion pictures of assorted varieties were made. starting with the paintings of pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès on the sunrise of the 20 th century and relocating via such silent motion pictures as Fritz Lang's vintage city, technological know-how fiction movie has had a protracted and eventful background that has taken it in lots of instructions yet that has moved the style inexorably ahead right into a trendy position on the heart of the movie within the works of big-budget hit makers like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Bay.
The historic Dictionary of technology Fiction Cinema offers large insurance of the folks, motion pictures, businesses, concepts, topics, and subgenres that experience made technological know-how fiction cinema one of these important a part of global cinema. this is often performed via a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over three hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries. This quantity is designed to be available and enlightening to lovers of the style who easily need to know extra concerning the motion pictures they so get pleasure from.
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United States: Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith completes the second Star Wars trilogy. Steven Spielberg remakes War of the Worlds with stateof-the-art special effects to lukewarm critical response. A low-budget adaptation released in the same year as H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, is truer to the novel, but widely panned. Joss Whedon’s Serenity brings the Firefly television series to the big screen. Michael Bay’s The Island is a special-effects driven dystopian thriller that many saw as suspiciously similar to Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979).
The X-Files: I Want to Believe leaves few believing in the future potential of that film franchise. The animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars adds another chapter to that franchise. Pixar’s animated WALL-E provides a striking demonstration of the potential of computer-generated imagery for sf film. 2009 Germany/Great Britain/Italy/United States: Terminator Salvation reboots the franchise in the postapocalyptic future. Great Britain/United States: Alex Proyas’s Knowing depicts the end of the earth, but aliens help relocate the survivors of the human species.
Of course, seriousness and special effects need not be mutually exclusive, and a certain amount of inventive visual imagery is crucial to science fiction film as a whole, which uses special effects to help create believable alternative worlds in which to work their magic. Indeed, the history of science fiction film is inseparable from the history of the technologies that have been developed to create the special effects for the films. THE TECHNOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION FILM Science fiction film presents special challenges to filmmakers because it inherently involves the representation of a world that does not actually exist.