9780498022104 - Limits of Infinity: American Science Fiction Film (18 risultati)

Condizione: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Foxing to the pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company [1980]. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0498022102 . First [US] edition. Photo-illustrated [with over 140 movie stills] study of US science fiction films from 1950-1975. 246 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index. Near fine with light wear in like jacket. See photos clph.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Lightly bumped at the head and heel of the spine; lightly soiled on the top of the book. Jacket has moderate edgewear.

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0498022102.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 246 pages; Description: 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism. Genre/Form: Science fiction. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very Good text, but dust jacket has some rubbing and wear. 246 pages. NO marks or writing in book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; 1st American edition. Description: 246 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism - Science fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover, illus. Condizione: Fine+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Book Very Fine. NO defects. Small owner name 1st page else NO notes or ANY markings. DJ with minor edge wear front and two chips rear, else VG, not clipped ($14.50) ; 246 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1980 First Edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by A.S. Barnes. UNREAD COPY with minor shelf wear/minor edge wear only to the jacket. Very small amount of faint smudging at page edges. Overall, a nice copy. 246 pages, includes index. "This is an aesthetic study focusing on the American science fiction film from its birth as a critically recognized genre in the early 1950s through 1975 and the genre's current renaissance in popularity. Looking first at traditional definitions of science fiction in both its literary and film forms, the book attempts to reevaluate and rework such definitions so as to accommodate those elements of the genre which are constant and those which are in flux -- temporally responsive to societal pressures and spatially responsive to the limits of a production budget. This first part of the book also investigates the relationship between the science fiction film and the horror film and pays special attention to that often critically embarrassing hybrid -- the Creature film. The second section of the book deals with science fiction film imagery. Going against the grain of current iconographic analyses of film genres, this section argues that such a discussion of iconography is inappropriate to a genre in which there are no visual constants, no given temporal or spatial parameters. Because of its plastic and malleable imagery, the science fiction film depends less on specific objects and settings than on the familiar and repeated visual functions of specific kinds of images. These images are used to cause wonder in the viewer, a wonder that may be either optimistic or pessimistic or neutral in tone. In all cases, however, those wondrous images -- their logical extension is into the world of avant-garde film -- are tempered by an equal impulse to ground the films in a comfortable, comprehensible, and familiar context. The last section of the book similarly explores a hitherto neglected area of the genre: the sounds of the science fiction film. Dialogue, music, sound effects -- all are examined for their specific generic contributions. Whereas the majority of science fiction images tend toward an alien and wondrous quality that must be carefully grounded and reduced to commercial comprehensibility, the majority of science fiction dialogue tends inherently toward the banal and reductive, qualities that the genre attempts to transform through various measures into something more wondrous. Thus, the genre is full of talking machines and animals, attempts at alien language, language turned to ritual and liturgy and framed by public events, and the spoken word turned into print imagery that has a kinetic life of its own on the screen. THE LIMITS OF INFINITY -- with over 140 movie stills -- attempts not only to look at science fiction films in new way, but also attempts to approach the genre in a new way, suggesting a methodology that will prove useful to future genre analysis.".

paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: used good. 2026x-libris.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0498022102.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 246 pages; Description: 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism. Genre/Form: Science fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Some shelfwear to jacket.; 8vo; 246 pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; 1st American edition. Description: 246 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism - Science fiction. 1 Kg.