Hollywood presents Jules Verne the father of science fiction on screen
Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky
2015.
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| Colección: | Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33914448*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: how a French author met Hollywood
- The silents
- Searching for a popular approach, 1925-1945
- Creating a style, 1946-1955
- Establishing a mythos as the Verne cycle begins, 1956-1959
- The height of the Verne cycle, 1960-1962
- The cycle changes, 1963-1971
- Toward a new aesthetic, 1972-1979
- The wandering trail, 1981-1993
- The revival, 1993-1996
- Telefilms and miniseries reign, 1997-1999
- Biography or pastiche, 2000-2003
- Dismal reiterations, 2004-2008
- A new formulation, 2008-present
- Epilogue.
