A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films [antikvár]

w The Frankenstein Monster as he appeared in the original 1910 Edison Company production, Frankenstein. Science fiction is, at best, a very subjective label. It is easy enough to call a film like Fantastic Voyageor Marooned science fiction, but what of Frankenstein? Certainly it is based in scientific speculation; yet most people would call it a horror film. We have included it in this book, along with such films as The Time Machine and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, even though many aficionados would consider these not science fiction, but fantasy. That the several genres overlap there is obviously no doubt. It is therefore best that people build their own definitions. However, these personal boundaries are so diverse that it would be impossible to please everyone. Thus, for our