Science Fiction / Horror - A Sight and Sound Reader

Informationen zum Autor Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction has been translated into many languages and he is a past recipient of, among others, the Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Critics' Guild Award for Best Novel. He is also the editor of The BFI Companion to Horror. Klappentext This volume provides a diverse overview of trends that have shaped sci-fi/horror since the 1990s. It explores how films like "The Fight Club" and "The Truman Show" have impinged on more traditional territory and have tested the limits of conventional understandings of two central film genres. Zusammenfassung This volume provides a diverse overview of trends that have shaped sci-fi/horror since the 1990s. It explores how films like 'The Fight Club' and 'The Truman Show' have impinged on more traditional territory and have tested the limits of conventional understandings of two central film genres.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Newman
• Assisted by: Kim Newman (Editor)
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9780851708966
• ISBN: 978-0-85170-896-6
• No. of pages: 335
• Series: BFI Film Classics; BFI Film Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet