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Science Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers; With an Appendix of the 37 Serials with Slight SF Content

Science Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers; With an Appendix of the 37 Serials with Slight SF Content

Kinnard, Roy

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0786437456
ISBN13: 9780786437450
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 25 2008
Pages: 223
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.27 Depth: 8.89
Language: English

Destination Moon; George Pal's 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy science fiction film. Usually ignored or casually dismissed in genre histories are the serials, the low-budget chapterplays exhibited as Saturday matinee fare and targeted almost exclusively at children. Lacking stars and top-notch writers or directors, the serials went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by either critics or by the film industry. Yet serials were financially important to the Hollywood studios, and were often free to exploit risky or outlandish subjects that producers of distinguished movies would not touch.

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