Science Fiction / Horror

A Sight and Sound Reader

By: Kim Newman (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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What in contemporary cinema is a horror film and what is a science fiction movie? Blade Runner (1982) is as much film noir as science fiction, and it is a literary adaptation. The latest remake of The Mummy (1999) is more an effects fantasy or action/adventure than straightforward horror. Whatever your viewpoint, the best of these movies have generated cults and imitations and the worst have a wonderfully perverse appeal all of their own.
This new volume in the Sight and Sound readers series provides a varied and diverse overview of trends that have shaped sci-fi/horror in the last decade. It explores how recent films like The Fight Club and The Truman Show have impinged on more traditional territory and have tested the limits of conventional understandings of these most central of genres.
The book engages with a host of topics that have emerged over the last decade: vampire movies, body horror, the nuclear threat, childhood terror, artificial worlds, and postmodern horror. It includes fresh looks at classics such as Rosemary's Baby, Psycho, Halloween, Nosferatu, and Blade Runner, as well as 90s highlights the Scream series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Strange Days Existenz, and Cube.

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Introduction	p. xi
Themes
'When Dr No Met Dr Strangelove' (December 1993)	p. 3
'An Eye for an Eye' (April 1994)	p. 13
'Paranoia and the Pods' (May 1994)	p. 17
'London: Necropolis of Fretful Ghosts' (June 1994)	p. 23
'Bloody Tales' (January 1995)	p. 28
'Eduardo Paolozzi's Machine Dreams' (Art into Film Supplement, July 1994)	p. 33
'A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea' (New)	p. 38
Films
'Blade Runner: Telling the Difference' (December 1992)	p. 47
'I Am a Believer' (July 1992)	p. 51
Review: 'The Rapture' (July 1992)	p. 57
'Sitting Inside' (April 1995)	p. 59
'Dying for Art' (December 1994)	p. 62
'Homeopathic Horror' (April 1995)	p. 68
'Learning to Scream' (December 1994)	p. 72
'Desperation and Desire' (January 1997)	p. 78
'Voodoo Road' (August 1997)	p. 84
'It's a Wonderful Life: The Dark End of the Street' (LFF Supplement, November 1997)	p. 89
'A Child's Demon' (April 1999)	p. 95
'Bring Back the Cat' (November 1999)	p. 100
'So Good It Hurts' (November 1999)	p. 103
Review: 'Fight Club' (December 1999)	p. 108
'Vanishing Americans' (June 2000)	p. 110
Reviews
'Red Planet (February 2001)	p. 113
'Audition' (March 2001)	p. 115
'Ed Gein' (August 2001)	p. 117
People and Stories
'Beauty & the Beasts' (October 1992)	p. 123
Review: 'Beauty and the Beast' (October 1992)	p. 132
'Hammer's Cosy Violence' (August 1996)	p. 134
'Gojira Mon Amour' (July 1998)	p. 138
Review: 'Godzilla' (August 1998)	p. 146
'Fritz Lang: The Illusion of Mastery' (January 2000)	p. 147
'The Cage of Reason' (January 2000)	p. 155
Review: 'Sleepy Hollow' (February 2000)	p. 159
'Lunatics on the Pitch' (June 2000)	p. 161
'Six Degrees Of Nosferatu' (February 2001)	p. 165
Review: 'Shadow of the Vampire' (February 2001)	p. 174
'The Riddler Has His Day' (April 2001)	p. 176
Review: 'Hannibal' (April 2001)	p. 181
'Gorilla Warfare' (September 2001)	p. 183
Case Study--Teenage Postmodern Horror
'Blood Sisters' (June 2001)	p. 193
Reviews
'The Craft' (November 1996)	p. 195
'Scream' (May 1997)	p. 197
'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (January 1998)	p. 199
'Scream 2' (May 1998)	p. 200
'Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later' (November 1998)	p. 202
'The Faculty' (April 1999)	p. 204
'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' (May 1999)	p. 206
'Disturbing Behaviour' (October 1999)	p. 208
'Scream 3' (May 2000)	p. 209
'Idle Hands' (June 2000)	p. 210
'Teaching Mrs Tingle' (Original)	p. 211
'Scary Movie' (October 2000)	p. 213
'The Hole' (May 2001)	p. 215
Case Study--Gameworlds and Rubber Reality
'Bubble Boy' (August 1998)	p. 221
'Game Boy' (April 1999)	p. 223
'Time Machines' (April 1999)	p. 227
'Rubber Reality' (June 1999)	p. 229
'Riddle of the Sands' (September 2001)	p. 231
'The Dreamlife of Androids' (September 2001)	p. 236
Reviews
'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' (October 2001)	p. 241
'Groundhog Day' (May 1993)	p. 243
'Mortal Kombat' (November 1995)	p. 245
'Strange Days' (January 1996)	p. 246
'Dark City' (June 1998)	p. 249
'The Truman Show' (October 1998)	p. 251
'Cube' (November 1998)	p. 253
'eXistenZ' (May 1999)	p. 255
'The Sixth Sense' (November 1999)	p. 257
'Run Lola Run' (November 1999)	p. 258
'EDtv' (December 1999)	p. 260
'Timecode' (September 2000)	p. 261
'The Cell' (November 2000)	p. 264
'Memento' (November 2000)	p. 265
'Battle Royale' (September 2001)	p. 268
'Final Fantasy The Spirits Within' (September 2001)	p. 271
Case Study--Stanley Kubrick
'2001: A Cold Descent' (January 1994)	p. 277
Review: '2001: A Space Odyssey' (Summer 1968)	p. 290
'Real Horrorshow' (September 1999)	p. 293
'The Overlook Hotel' (Winter 1980/81)	p. 300
'Resident Phantoms' (September 1999)	p. 306
Index	p. 313
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