Science Fiction Studies

#43 = Volume 14, Part 3 = November 1987

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SPECIAL ISSUE: SCIENCE-FICTION FILM

ARTICLES

• Editorial Introduction

• Simonetta Salvestroni. The Science-Fiction Films of Andrei Tarkovsky

• Paul Coates. Chris Marker and the Cinema as Time Machine

• Peter C. Hall and Richard D. Erlich. Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic-Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film

• Thomas B. Byers. Commodity Futures: Corporate State and Personal Style in Three Recent Science-Fiction Movies

• Peter Fitting. Futurecop: The Neutralization of Revolt in Blade Runner

• Todd H. Sammons. Return of the Jedi: Epic Grafitti

• Andrew Gordon. Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveler

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Andrew Gordon. Science-Fiction Film Criticism: The Postmodern Always Rings Twice (Vivian Sobchack. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Films)

• David Y. Hughes. Desperately Mortal (David C. Smith. H.G. Wells, Desperately Mortal: A Biography)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Martin's The Knowledge of Ignorance (Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr.)

• Shinn's Worlds Within Women (Marleen Barr)

• Barr, Salvaggio, Law on Charnas, Butler, Vinge (Kathleen L. Spencer)

• A Model Bibliography of Stapledon (Robert M. Philmus)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Alice Hastings Sheldon, 1915-87 (Linda Leith)
• Censorship in West Germany: An Update (Rainer Eisfeld)

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