TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taves,Brian
TI  - Hollywood presents Jules Verne: the father of science fiction on screen 
T2  - Screen classics
SN  - 9780813161143
AV  - PQ2469 .H655 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Verne, Jules,
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Science fiction films
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: how a French author met Hollywood --; The silents --; Searching for a popular approach, 1925-1945 --; Creating a style, 1946-1955 --; Establishing a mythos as the Verne cycle begins, 1956-1959 --; The height of the Verne cycle, 1960-1962 --; The cycle changes, 1963-1971 --; Toward a new aesthetic, 1972-1979 --; The wandering trail, 1981-1993 --; The revival, 1993-1996 --; Telefilms and miniseries reign, 1997-1999 --; Biography or pastiche, 2000-2003 --; Dismal reiterations, 2004-2008 --; A new formulation, 2008-present --; Epilogue; 2; b
N2  - Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth. One of the most widely translated authors of all time, Verne has inspired filmmakers since the early silent period and continues to fascinate audiences more than one hundred years after his works were first published. His riveting plots and vivid descriptions easily transform into compelling scripts and dramatic visual compositions.In Hollywood Presents Jules Verne, Brian Taves investigates the indelible mark that the author has left on English-language cinema. Adaptations of Verne's tales have taken many forms --
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