Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror

In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated reality.

What, exactly, makes us afraid?

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Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007).

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audiences, depicting a harrowing and doomed deep-space mission.

In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history.

Controversial yet beloved among audiences, Christmas-themed horror movies emerged in the early 1970s and gained a notorious reputation with Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), depicting Santa as an ax-wielding maniac.

Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) and starring Scarlett Johansson, the 2013 film Under the Skin contains elements of science fiction and fantasy, horror, mystery, and thriller.

This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre.

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV.

Faith horror refers to a significant outcropping of mid-1960s and 1970s films and adaptative novels that depict non-Christian communities of evil doers and their activities.

The horror anthology TV show American Horror Story first aired on FX Horror in 2011 and has thus far spanned eight seasons.

The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc.

This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones.

Set in the American Southwest, "e;desert terror"e; films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence.

The original Star Wars trilogy famously follows Joseph Campbell's model for the hero's journey, making Luke Skywalker's story the new hero quest for a modern age.

Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age.

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes.

The first of its kind, this guide to California filming sites covers five decades of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in chapter plays.

Over the past half-century Doctor Who has defined science fiction television.

Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "e;Studio that Dripped Blood?

What makes a horror television drama interesting?

In 1965, 18-year-old Persis Khambatta became the third woman to be crowned Miss India.

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror.

Women are now central to many science fiction films--but that has not always been the case.

British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features.

Star Trek: The Next Generation blended speculative science fiction and space opera in its portrayal of communication.

The ongoing popularity of Leslie Stevens' 1960s television masterwork The Outer Limits, as well as later series creations Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, has kept his name familiar to television fans.

After they are pulled 70,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant, the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of others, and themselves.

Telling an American Horror Story collects essays from new and established critics looking at the many ways the horror anthology series intersects with and comments on contemporary American social, political and popular culture.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores the undead and unholy in literature, film, television, and popular culture.

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain?

"e;Magick"e; as defined by Aleister Crowley is "e;the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "e;vomit gore"e; films.

Aliens: They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh.

This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence.

Since 1966, the Star Trek television franchise has used outer space and the thrilling adventures of the crews of the U.

From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous.

Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s.

The "e;Gothic"e; style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre.

Star Trek has transcended science fiction through its use of elements that have crucial roles in classical utopian tradition.

Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre.

';Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines.

Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal.

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings.

Since its inception in 1992, the Sci-Fi Channel (later rebranded as SYFY) has aired more than 500 network-produced or commissioned films.

Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked.

The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings.