Hollywood presents Jules Verne : the father of science fiction on screen / Brian Taves.

By:

Taves, Brian, 1959- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813161143
9780813161136

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PQ2469 .H655 2015

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PQ2469.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn907532757

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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