Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies

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No entertainment force has defined our future more imaginatively, and also more prophetically, than the science fiction film. The movie world of the impossible, a world in which robots, computers, nuclear bombs, and rocket ships act out our most fanciful dreams of distant futures, has foretold with stunning accuracy how the technology of our planet would develop since the beginning of the century.
Filled with hundreds of rare photographs, Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies celebrates close to a hundred years of these science fiction films that have depicted the future in untold ways. Acclaimed film critic Danny Peary has assembled a distinguished cast of contributors, whose forty-two original essays provide for an entertaining and... Tovább

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No entertainment force has defined our future more imaginatively, and also more prophetically, than the science fiction film. The movie world of the impossible, a world in which robots, computers, nuclear bombs, and rocket ships act out our most fanciful dreams of distant futures, has foretold with stunning accuracy how the technology of our planet would develop since the beginning of the century.
Filled with hundreds of rare photographs, Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies celebrates close to a hundred years of these science fiction films that have depicted the future in untold ways. Acclaimed film critic Danny Peary has assembled a distinguished cast of contributors, whose forty-two original essays provide for an entertaining and engrossing examination of one of the most popular genres of American film.
Among the book's many contributors, science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison illuminate the many pitfalls and pleasures of taking a story from novel to film. Nicholas Meyer, director of The Day After, laments the rise of nuclear weapons in our modern political culture, while Cornel Wilde, who directed the powerful No Blade of Grass, suggests that environmental
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ruin is the result of man's ecological recklessness. Actor Leonard Nimoy, whose role as Mr. Spöck, the starship science officer, has etched itself into popular American culture, provides hidden insights into the famous Star Trek figure, while an essay on cinematic special effects offers readers a peek into the California laboratory of George Lucas.
Peary's Screen Flights / Screen Fantasies, prepared in collaboration with Omni magazine, not only reveals how and why more than one hundred of these futuristic movies came to be made, but provides for a splendid historical panorama for our cinematic past —from the vivid depictions of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, to the groundbreaking debut of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that signaled an end to the B-films of the fifties, to the more recent leitmotiv offerings of Hollywood such as Blade Runner that suggest that the future may be perilous but not necessarily hopeless.
Ultimately, Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies, like the very movies it describes, is a triumph of revelation, in telling us about the way we saw the future, it tells us about our scientific and cultural history, and ultimately, about ourselves.
Danny Peary's recent books include Cult Movies I, Cult Movies II, and Close-Ups: The Movie Star Book. He lives in New York with his wife Suzanne and daughter Zoe. Vissza