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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Westfahl |
| ISBN: | 0313308470 9780313308475 |
| OCLC Number: | 42296621 |
| Description: | xiv, 157 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | How Charlie made children hate him: fantasy and reality in stories for small children -- The three lives of Superman - and everybody else -- Mystery of the amateur detectives: the early days of the Hardy boys -- Giving Horatio Alger goosebumps, or, from Hardy boys to hapless boys: the changing ethos of juveline series fiction -- From the back of the head to beyond the moon: the novel and film This island Earth -- Opposing war, exploiting war: the troubled pacifism of Star trek -- Even better than the real thing: advertising, music videos, postmodernism, and (eventually) science fiction -- Legends of the fall: going not particularly far Behind the music -- Hollywood strikes a pose: seven tales of triumph, treachery, and travail in old Tinseltown -- In defense of stone tablets: Isaac Asimov explains why science fiction is skeptical about "new information technologies" -- Partial derivatives: popular misinterpretations of H.G. Wells's The time machine. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 88 |
| Responsibility: | Gary Westfahl. |
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