LIQUID METAL

Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader is the first extended collection of previously published essays on science fiction film and television. This Reader brings together a great number of seminal essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It is divided into eight distinct themed sections and includes important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J. P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley amongst others, writing on films such as Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars, Total Recall, Them! and The Thing.

January 2004
366 pages

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Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (2003).

‘It provides an invaluable – and singular – text for both students and scholars interested in surveying the key literature in the field and exploring a range of interpretive methods and critical practice.'
– Professor Vivian Sobchack, University of California

‘In the range of its coverage, Liquid Metal makes a fair bid at becoming the set text around which both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on sf film will, with some supplementary readings, be based, and the list of contributors is a pretty solid guarantee of the quality of the criticism it contains.’
– Science Fiction Studies

‘Editor Sean Redmond’s insights about the essays and the science fiction genre as a whole are consistent, clear and useful … There is plenty here for anyone with an interest in science fiction film history and criticism.’
– Jeff D’Anastasio, Science Fiction Research Association

'The book succeeds as an illuminating study of the science fiction film, as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism, revealing how this genre has captured the popular imagination while transforming the physical and social world in which we live.'
– Adrian Gargett, www.kamera.co.uk