Author Archive for: ‘James Curnow’

Robert Burgoyne, The Hollywood Historical Film. Malden MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1405146036 US$31.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing) The task of encompassing historical cinema into a singular generic category is a slippery one at best. A seemingly endless series of sub-genres need to be accounted for, from the biopic to the war film, each of which …

James Herrick, Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs. InterVarsityPress Academic, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0830825882 US$23.00 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by IVP Academic) It was perhaps inevitable that at some point in the process of trading religion for science as our window on the universe, science would become religious. We thus find ourselves with new mythologies …

Christine Cornea, Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7486-1642-8 Au$49.95 (pb) 308pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) In the foreword to her new book, Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality, Christine Cornea makes it clear that its fundamental purpose is to “place the thematic and formal concerns raised by science fiction …