Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide
A Topical Index to 2,500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films
Published on 10. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
698 pages
978-0-7864-3766-5 (ISBN)
Description
About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends.
Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
Reviews / Votes
"When Bryan Senn writes books on cinema, many monster movie fans know he grabs their attention right away and won't let go"-Scary Monsters Magazine; "not only is this useful in reference, it's a browser's delight...should be a standard addition to reference shelves...highly recommended"-Choice; "presents substantial filmographic information...a useful source"-Booklist; "This much-needed guide arranges 2,500 titles under 81 subject areas."-Neil Barron, Editor of Fantasy and Horror.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
139 photos, appendices, index
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
983 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-3766-5 (9780786437665)
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Person
Bryan Senn's work has appeared in Filmfax, Cult Movies, Shivers, Midnight Marquee Press and Monsters from the Vault. The author of numerous books on the history of cinema, he lives in Montana. John Johnson is the author of Cheap Tricks and Class Acts (McFarland, 1996). He lives in Keizer, Oregon.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction xiii
VOLUME
The Abominable Snowman
Aliens
Invaders on Earth: The 50s
Invaders on Earth: The 60s and 70s
Invaders on Earth: The 80s and Beyond
Encounters in Outer Space
Benevolent Aliens
Alligators and Crocodiles
Androids (see Robots)
Animal Giants
Anthologies
Ape Giants (see also Apes and Monkeys)
Apes and Monkeys (see also Ape Giants; Planet of the Apes)
Atlantis
The Atomic Bomb (see Futures on Earth)
Automobiles (see Cars and Vehicular Villains)
Bathory, Elizabeth: The Bloody Countess
Bats
Bears
Big Bugs (see Bug Giants)
Bigfoot
Birds
Blobs
Brains
Disembodied Brains
Living Heads
Brain Suckers
Brain Transplants
Bug Giants
Bug-People
Bugs (see also Bug Giants and
Bug-People)
Cannibals
Cars and Vehicular Villains
Cat-People (see also Cats)
Cats (see also Cat-People)
Cavepeople
Comic Book Fantasy Heroes
Computers
Crabs and Crustaceans
Crocodiles (see Alligators and Crocodiles)
Demons and Devils
Dinosaurs (see also Japanese
Giant Monsters)
Time of the Dinosaur
Lost Worlds
Dinosaurs on the Loose 185
Dr. Jekyll (see Jekyll, Dr., and Family)
Dogs
Dolls
Dorian Gray (see Gray, Dorian)
Dracula (see Vampires-Dracula and Family)
Dreamkillers
Edgar Allan Poe (see Poe Films)
ESP (see Psychic Ability)
Fish (see also Sea Monsters;
Fish-People)
Fish-People (see also Fish;
Monsters)
Frankenstein's Monster
Universal Series
Hammer Frankensteins
Further Frankensteins
Freaks
Futures on Earth
After the Bomb
Utopias and Dystopias
Gamera (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Genies
Ghosts
Ghouls (see Zombie Flesh Eaters)
Giants (see Animal Giants;
Giants; Human Giants)
Gill-men (see Fish-People)
Godzilla (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Golem (see Statues Come to Life)
Grave Robbers
Gray, Dorian
Hands
VOLUME
Heads (see Brains-Living Heads)
Human Giants
Hunchbacks (see Freaks)
Hypnotists
Insects (see Bug Giants; Bug-People; Bugs)
Invisibility
Jack the Ripper
Japanese Giant Monsters
Godzilla
Gamera
Other Giant Japanese Monsters 317
Jekyll, Dr., and Family
Machines (see also Cars and Vehicular Villains; Computers; Robots)
Mad Scientists (see also Brains; Frankenstein's Monster; Invisibility; Jekyll, Dr., and Family; Shrinkage)
Madmen (see also Cannibals; Jack the Ripper; Phantoms; Poe Films; Wax Museums)
Early Madmen (From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho: 1919-1960)
Early Psychos (From Psycho to Halloween: 1960-1978)
The Slice'n' Dice Wave (In the wake of Halloween: 1978- ) 381
Magicians
Mars
Monkeys (see Apes and Monkeys)
The Moon
Mummies
The Universal Series
The Aztec Mummy Series
More Mummies
Mythology (see also Genies; Sinbad; Sword and Sorcery)
Nuclear Holocaust (see Futures on Earth)
Phantoms
Planet of the Apes Series
Plants
Poe Films
Early Poe
The Corman Cycle
Modern Poe
Psychic Ability
Psychos (see Madmen)
Rats
Reincarnation
Robots (see also Computers; Machines)
Sasquatch (see Bigfoot)
Satan (see Demons and Devils)
Sea Monsters (see also Crabs
Crustaceans; Fish; Fish-People)
Sharks (see Fish)
Shrinkage
Sinbad
Slasher Movies (see Madmen-The Slice 'n' Dice Wave)
Snakes
Space Travel (see also Aliens-Encounters in Outer Space; Mars; The Moon; Venus)
Statues Come to Life
Sword and Sorcery (see also Mythology; Sinbad)
Telekinesis (see Psychic Ability)
Telepathy (see Psychic Ability)
Time Travel
Trees (see Plants)
Two-Headed Creatures
Underground Worlds
Underwater Monsters (see Sea Monsters)
Utopias (see Futures on Earth)
Vampires
Dracula and Family
Hammer's Undead
Other Vampires
Venus
Voodoo (see also Witches,
Warlocks, and Cults)
Wax Museums
Werewolves
Universal's "Larry Talbot" Series
Spain's "Waldemar Daninsky" Series
Other Lycanthropes
Witches, Warlocks, and Cults (see also Voodoo)
Yeti (see The Abominable
Snowman)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (see also Zombies)
Zombies (see also Zombie Flesh Eaters)
Appendix A: Blaxploitation
Appendix B: 3-D
Appendix C: Westerns
Title Index
(Including authors' rating, 1 -10, of 1,908 of the films)
Acknowledgments
Introduction xiii
VOLUME
The Abominable Snowman
Aliens
Invaders on Earth: The 50s
Invaders on Earth: The 60s and 70s
Invaders on Earth: The 80s and Beyond
Encounters in Outer Space
Benevolent Aliens
Alligators and Crocodiles
Androids (see Robots)
Animal Giants
Anthologies
Ape Giants (see also Apes and Monkeys)
Apes and Monkeys (see also Ape Giants; Planet of the Apes)
Atlantis
The Atomic Bomb (see Futures on Earth)
Automobiles (see Cars and Vehicular Villains)
Bathory, Elizabeth: The Bloody Countess
Bats
Bears
Big Bugs (see Bug Giants)
Bigfoot
Birds
Blobs
Brains
Disembodied Brains
Living Heads
Brain Suckers
Brain Transplants
Bug Giants
Bug-People
Bugs (see also Bug Giants and
Bug-People)
Cannibals
Cars and Vehicular Villains
Cat-People (see also Cats)
Cats (see also Cat-People)
Cavepeople
Comic Book Fantasy Heroes
Computers
Crabs and Crustaceans
Crocodiles (see Alligators and Crocodiles)
Demons and Devils
Dinosaurs (see also Japanese
Giant Monsters)
Time of the Dinosaur
Lost Worlds
Dinosaurs on the Loose 185
Dr. Jekyll (see Jekyll, Dr., and Family)
Dogs
Dolls
Dorian Gray (see Gray, Dorian)
Dracula (see Vampires-Dracula and Family)
Dreamkillers
Edgar Allan Poe (see Poe Films)
ESP (see Psychic Ability)
Fish (see also Sea Monsters;
Fish-People)
Fish-People (see also Fish;
Monsters)
Frankenstein's Monster
Universal Series
Hammer Frankensteins
Further Frankensteins
Freaks
Futures on Earth
After the Bomb
Utopias and Dystopias
Gamera (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Genies
Ghosts
Ghouls (see Zombie Flesh Eaters)
Giants (see Animal Giants;
Giants; Human Giants)
Gill-men (see Fish-People)
Godzilla (see Japanese Giant Monsters)
Golem (see Statues Come to Life)
Grave Robbers
Gray, Dorian
Hands
VOLUME
Heads (see Brains-Living Heads)
Human Giants
Hunchbacks (see Freaks)
Hypnotists
Insects (see Bug Giants; Bug-People; Bugs)
Invisibility
Jack the Ripper
Japanese Giant Monsters
Godzilla
Gamera
Other Giant Japanese Monsters 317
Jekyll, Dr., and Family
Machines (see also Cars and Vehicular Villains; Computers; Robots)
Mad Scientists (see also Brains; Frankenstein's Monster; Invisibility; Jekyll, Dr., and Family; Shrinkage)
Madmen (see also Cannibals; Jack the Ripper; Phantoms; Poe Films; Wax Museums)
Early Madmen (From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho: 1919-1960)
Early Psychos (From Psycho to Halloween: 1960-1978)
The Slice'n' Dice Wave (In the wake of Halloween: 1978- ) 381
Magicians
Mars
Monkeys (see Apes and Monkeys)
The Moon
Mummies
The Universal Series
The Aztec Mummy Series
More Mummies
Mythology (see also Genies; Sinbad; Sword and Sorcery)
Nuclear Holocaust (see Futures on Earth)
Phantoms
Planet of the Apes Series
Plants
Poe Films
Early Poe
The Corman Cycle
Modern Poe
Psychic Ability
Psychos (see Madmen)
Rats
Reincarnation
Robots (see also Computers; Machines)
Sasquatch (see Bigfoot)
Satan (see Demons and Devils)
Sea Monsters (see also Crabs
Crustaceans; Fish; Fish-People)
Sharks (see Fish)
Shrinkage
Sinbad
Slasher Movies (see Madmen-The Slice 'n' Dice Wave)
Snakes
Space Travel (see also Aliens-Encounters in Outer Space; Mars; The Moon; Venus)
Statues Come to Life
Sword and Sorcery (see also Mythology; Sinbad)
Telekinesis (see Psychic Ability)
Telepathy (see Psychic Ability)
Time Travel
Trees (see Plants)
Two-Headed Creatures
Underground Worlds
Underwater Monsters (see Sea Monsters)
Utopias (see Futures on Earth)
Vampires
Dracula and Family
Hammer's Undead
Other Vampires
Venus
Voodoo (see also Witches,
Warlocks, and Cults)
Wax Museums
Werewolves
Universal's "Larry Talbot" Series
Spain's "Waldemar Daninsky" Series
Other Lycanthropes
Witches, Warlocks, and Cults (see also Voodoo)
Yeti (see The Abominable
Snowman)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (see also Zombies)
Zombies (see also Zombie Flesh Eaters)
Appendix A: Blaxploitation
Appendix B: 3-D
Appendix C: Westerns
Title Index
(Including authors' rating, 1 -10, of 1,908 of the films)