Science Fiction Serials A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers with an Appendix of the 37 Serials with Slight SF Content 1st Edition by Roy Kinnard ISBN 1476604134 9781476604138
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ISBN 10: 1476604134
ISBN 13: 9781476604138
Author: Roy Kinnard
Destination Moon; George Pal’s 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy science fiction film. Usually ignored or casually dismissed in genre histories are the serials, the low-budget chapterplays exhibited as Saturday matinee fare and targeted almost exclusively at children. Lacking stars and top-notch writers or directors, the serials went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by either critics or by the film industry. Yet serials were financially important to the Hollywood studios, and were often free to exploit risky or outlandish subjects that producers of “distinguished” movies would not touch.
Influential serials such as The Phantom Empire (1935) and Flash Gordon (1936) finally brought science fiction themes to the big screen. Those serials and 29 others are exhaustively covered in this work, which provides complete cast and credit information along with plot descriptions and historical commentary for each serial. Video distributors (if available) are also listed.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
Chapter 2: The Lost City (1935)
Chapter 3: The Phantom Empire (1935)
Chapter 4: Flash Gordon (1936)
Chapter 5: Undersea Kingdom (1936)
Chapter 6: Dick Tracy (1937)
Chapter 7: Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938)
Chapter 8: The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Chapter 9: Buck Rogers (1939)
Chapter 10: The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Chapter 11: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Chapter 12: Mysterious Dr. Satan (1940)
Chapter 13: Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941)
Chapter 14: Batman (1943)
Chapter 15: Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)
Chapter 16: The Monster and the Ape (1945)
Chapter 17: The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)
Chapter 18: The Crimson Ghost (1946)
Chapter 19: Brick Bradford (1947)
Chapter 20: Superman (1948)
Chapter 21: Batman and Robin (1949)
Chapter 22: King of the Rocket Men (1949)
Chapter 23: The Invisible Monster (1950)
Chapter 24: Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
Chapter 25: Flying Disc Man from Mars (1951)
Chapter 26: Mysterious Island (1951)
Chapter 27: Captain Video (1951)
Chapter 28: Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
Chapter 29: Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)
Chapter 30: The Lost Planet (1953)
Chapter 31: Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)
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