How great science fiction works
Item details
- ISBN: 9781629972428
- ISBN: 1629972428
- ISBN: 9781501925306
- ISBN: 150192530X
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Physical Description:
videodisc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). - Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Title from disc surface. Course no. 2984. Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) in course guidebook. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Mary Shelley and the Birth of Science Fiction ; Science Fiction in the 19th Century ; Science Fiction Treatments of History ; Evolution and Deep Time in Science Fiction ; Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares ; The Rise of the Science Fiction Pulps -- Disc 2. The Golden Age of Science Fiction Stories ; The Spaceship as a Science Fiction Icon ; The Robot: From Čapek to Asimov ; The Golden Age of the Science Fiction Novel ; From Mars to Arrakis: The Planet ; The Science Fiction Wasteland -- Disc 3. Invasions, Space Wars, and Xenocide ; Religion in Science Fiction ; Science Fiction's New Wave ; Encounters with the Alien Other ; Environmentalism in Science Fiction ; Gender Questions and Feminist Science Fiction -- Disc 4. Cyberpunk and the 1980s ; The 1990s: The New Space Opera ; The Artifact as a Science Fiction Icon ; Science Fiction in the 21st Century ; The Future of Science Fiction. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Professor Gary K. Wolfe, Roosevelt University. |
System Details Note: | DVD. |
Language Note: | In English; closed-captioned. |
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