Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films

Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films

by Bryan Senn
Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films

Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide: A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films

by Bryan Senn

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Overview

About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends.

Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786437665
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 03/10/2008
Edition description: ALT
Pages: 698
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Bryan Senn’s work has appeared in Filmfax, Cult Movies, Shivers, Midnight Marquee Press and Monsters from the Vault. The author of numerous books on the history of cinema, he lives in Montana. John Johnson is the author of Cheap Tricks and Class Acts (McFarland, 1996). He lives in Keizer, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction xiii

VOLUME     
The Abominable Snowman     
Aliens     
Invaders on Earth: The 50s     
Invaders on Earth: The 60s and 70s     
Invaders on Earth: The 80s and Beyond     
Encounters in Outer Space     
Benevolent Aliens     
Alligators and Crocodiles     
Androids (see Robots)
Animal Giants     
Anthologies     
Ape Giants (see also Apes and Monkeys)     
Apes and Monkeys (see also Ape Giants; Planet of the Apes)     
Atlantis     
The Atomic Bomb (see Futures on Earth)
Automobiles (see Cars and Vehicular Villains)
Bathory, Elizabeth: The Bloody Countess     
Bats     
Bears     
Big Bugs (see Bug Giants)
Bigfoot     
Birds     
Blobs     
Brains     
Disembodied Brains     
Living Heads     
Brain Suckers     
Brain Transplants     
Bug Giants     
Bug-People     
Bugs (see also Bug Giants and
Bug-People)     
Cannibals     
Cars and Vehicular Villains     
Cat-People (see also Cats)     
Cats (see also Cat-People)     
Cavepeople     
Comic Book Fantasy Heroes     
Computers     
Crabs and Crustaceans     
Crocodiles (see Alligators and Crocodiles)
Demons and Devils     
Dinosaurs (see also Japanese
Giant Monsters)     
Time of the Dinosaur     
Lost Worlds     
Dinosaurs on the Loose      185
Dr. Jekyll (see Jekyll, Dr., and Family)
Dogs     
Dolls     
Dorian Gray (see Gray, Dorian)
Dracula (see Vampires—Dracula and Family)
Dreamkillers     
Edgar Allan Poe (see Poe Films)
ESP (see Psychic Ability)
Fish (see also Sea Monsters;
Fish-People)     
Fish-People (see also Fish;
Monsters)     
Frankenstein’s Monster     
Universal Series     
Hammer Frankensteins     
Further Frankensteins     
Freaks     
Futures on Earth     
After the Bomb     
Utopias and Dystopias     
Gamera (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Genies     
Ghosts     
Ghouls (see Zombie Flesh Eaters)
Giants (see Animal Giants;
Giants; Human Giants)
Gill-men (see Fish-People)
Godzilla (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Golem (see Statues Come to Life)
Grave Robbers     
Gray, Dorian     
Hands     

VOLUME     
Heads (see Brains—Living Heads)
Human Giants     
Hunchbacks (see Freaks)
Hypnotists     
Insects (see Bug Giants; Bug-People; Bugs)
Invisibility     
Jack the Ripper     
Japanese Giant Monsters     
Godzilla     
Gamera     
Other Giant Japanese Monsters      317
Jekyll, Dr., and Family     
Machines (see also Cars and Vehicular Villains; Computers; Robots)     
Mad Scientists (see also Brains; Frankenstein’s Monster; Invisibility; Jekyll, Dr., and Family; Shrinkage)     
Madmen (see also Cannibals; Jack the Ripper; Phantoms; Poe Films; Wax Museums)     
Early Madmen (From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho: 1919–1960)     
Early Psychos (From Psycho to Halloween: 1960–1978)     
The Slice’n’ Dice Wave (In the wake of Halloween: 1978– )      381
Magicians     
Mars     
Monkeys (see Apes and Monkeys)
The Moon     
Mummies     
The Universal Series     
The Aztec Mummy Series     
More Mummies     
Mythology (see also Genies; Sinbad; Sword and Sorcery)     
Nuclear Holocaust (see Futures on Earth)
Phantoms     
Planet of the Apes Series     
Plants     
Poe Films     
Early Poe     
The Corman Cycle     
Modern Poe     
Psychic Ability     
Psychos (see Madmen)
Rats     
Reincarnation     
Robots (see also Computers; Machines)     
Sasquatch (see Bigfoot)
Satan (see Demons and Devils)
Sea Monsters (see also Crabs
Crustaceans; Fish; Fish-People)     
Sharks (see Fish)
Shrinkage     
Sinbad     
Slasher Movies (see Madmen—The Slice ’n’ Dice Wave)
Snakes     
Space Travel (see also Aliens—Encounters in Outer Space; Mars; The Moon; Venus)     
Statues Come to Life     
Sword and Sorcery (see also Mythology; Sinbad)     
Telekinesis (see Psychic Ability)
Telepathy (see Psychic Ability)
Time Travel     
Trees (see Plants)
Two-Headed Creatures     
Underground Worlds     
Underwater Monsters (see Sea Monsters)
Utopias (see Futures on Earth)
Vampires     
Dracula and Family     
Hammer’s Undead     
Other Vampires     
Venus     
Voodoo (see also Witches,
Warlocks, and Cults)     
Wax Museums     
Werewolves     
Universal’s “Larry Talbot” Series     
Spain’s “Waldemar Daninsky” Series     
Other Lycanthropes     
Witches, Warlocks, and Cults (see also Voodoo)     
Yeti (see The Abominable
Snowman)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (see also Zombies)     
Zombies (see also Zombie Flesh Eaters)     

Appendix A: Blaxploitation     
Appendix B: 3-D     
Appendix C: Westerns     
Title Index     
(Including authors’ rating, 1 –10, of 1,908 of the films)
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