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Science fiction films This is a list of science fiction films organized chronologically. These films have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1960S
A list of science fiction films released in the 1960s. These...
- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1970S
A list of science fiction films released in the 1970s.These...
- List of Comic Science Fiction Films
My Science Project: 1985 My Stepmother Is an Alien: 1988...
- List of Science Fiction Films Before 1920
A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s....
- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1940S
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- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1920S
A list of science fiction films released in the 1920s. These...
- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1930S
This is a list of science fiction films that premiered...
- Science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses...
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction contains entries under...
- List of Science Fiction Films of The 1960S
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.
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- 1930s and 1940s
- Post-War and 1950s
- 1960s
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Science fiction films appeared very early in the silent film era. The initial attempts were short films of typically 1 to 2 minutes in duration, shot in black and white, but sometimes with colour tinting. These usually had a technological theme, and were often intended to be humorous. A Trip to the Moon, created by Georges Méliès in 1902 is often c...
Movies during the 1930s were largely influenced by the advent of sound and dialogue, and by the effects of the Great Depression that began in 1929. Audiences began to pursue films with more escapist themes, leading to a decline in serious speculative films. After the failure of the big-budget 1930 American film Just Imagine, studios were reluctant ...
Two events at the end of World War II significantly influenced the science fiction genre. The development of the atomic bomb increased interest in science, as well as anxiety about the possible apocalyptic effects of a nuclear war. The period also saw the beginning of the Cold War, and widespread Communist paranoia in the United States. These led t...
After the rush of science fiction films in the 1950s, there were relatively few in the 1960s; many of those made were more aimed at children more than an adult audience, mirroring the prevalence of children's television programmes of the period. There continued to be adaptations of the stories of Verne and H. G. Wells, including films of The Time M...
There was resurgence of interest in science fiction films with a "space adventure" theme in the 1970s. Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both released in 1977, contained a mystical element reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The space discoveries of the 1970s created a growing sense of marvel about the universe that was reflected ...
Following the huge success of Star Wars, science fiction became bankable again and each major studio rushed into production their available projects. As a direct result, the Star Trek Television series was reborn as a film franchise that continued through the 1980s and 1990s. Thanks to the Star Wars 1977 and Star Trek 1979 franchises, escapism beca...
The emergence of the World Wide Web and the cyberpunk genre during the 1990s spawned several Internet-themed films. Both The Lawnmower Man (1992) and Virtuosity (1995) dealt with threats to the network from a human-computer interface. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Total Recall (1990) had the memories of their main actors modified by a similar interfac...
Oddly, in the 2000s (decade), SF films seemed to turn away from space travel, and fantasy predominated. Except for Star Trek and Star Wars films, the only films set off Earth that appeared in the first half of the 2000s (decade) were Serenity, Titan A.E., and the poorly received Mission to Mars and Red Planet. On the other hand, fantasy and superhe...
Using bookable actors, science fiction films increasingly entered mainstream cinema with films like Gravity (2013) and Inception (2010) . Science fiction comedies saw moderate success, such as Men in Black 3 (2012), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and the sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), including family oriented films such as Megamind (2012) and ...
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction contains entries under the categories of authors, themes, terminology, science fiction in various countries, films, filmmakers, television, magazines, fanzines, comics, illustrators, book publishers, original anthologies, awards, and miscellaneous.
- John Clute, Peter Nicholls
- 1979
t. e. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and ...
With the emergence in 1937 of a demanding editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., at Astounding Science Fiction, and with the publication of stories and novels by such writers as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction began to gain status as serious fiction.
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Science fiction is a type of: Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author (s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also applied to theatrical, cinematic, and musical work.
