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    The found-footage science fiction film: five films by Craig Baldwin, Werner Herzog, and Patrick Keiller

    Luckhurst, Roger (2008) The found-footage science fiction film: five films by Craig Baldwin, Werner Herzog, and Patrick Keiller. Science Fiction Film & Television 1 (2), pp. 193-214. ISSN 1754-3770.

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    Abstract

    This essay explores a body of films that has emerged relatively recently and can be loosely grouped under the rubric of found-footage sf. They include Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America and Spectres of the Spectrum, Jonathan Weiss's The Atrocity Exhibition, Werner Herzog's The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy and Patrick Keiller's film that has appeared in various forms, from interactive DVD to multi-screen installation, The City of the Future. These cannot be said to constitute a self-conscious or even coherent sub-genre, since these works derive from diverse political, aesthetic and cinematic traditions. Nevertheless, the emergence of this cluster is striking enough to demand some commentary: it approaches a genuinely new form of sf cinema. This study therefore concurs with Brooks Landon's view that sf cinema broke its bonds in the 1980s and developed diverse, post-traditional forms that now need to be mapped.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2010 11:26
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:30
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2659

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