Prezzo Kindle:	EUR 7,43
	include IVA (dove applicabile)

Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies (English Edition) di [Daniel M. Kimmel]

Segui l'autore

Daniel M. Kimmel

Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Daniel M. Kimmel (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle

5 voti

Visualizza tutti i formati ed edizioni

Prezzo Amazon

Nuovo a partire da

Usato da

Formato Kindle

"Ti preghiamo di riprovare"

7,43 €

—

Copertina flessibile

"Ti preghiamo di riprovare"

27,40 €

24,71 €

—

Formato Kindle
7,43 € Leggilo con la nostra App gratuita
Copertina flessibile
27,40 €

2 Nuovo da 24,71 €

2012 HUGO AWARD FINALIST

As the title Jar Jar Binks Must Die indicates, Daniel M. Kimmel is not only a film critic with strong opinions, he's also a fan. In this collection of essays, he covers movies from Metropolis (1927), answering the absurd claim that the restoration of this silent classic negated its status as a science fiction film, to how Star Trek, Avatar, Moon, and District 9 may have made 2009 a "miracle year" for the genre. Along the way he looks at neglected works like Things to Come (1936), explains why remakes aren't always bad, and how seeing E.T. in an empty screening room changed his mind about Steven Spielberg. Whether to rediscover old favorites or add new titles to your Netflix queue, this is a must-have for lovers of SF movies.

Author Bio:

Daniel M. Kimmel is a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. When it was discovered he is also a science fiction fan he started getting invitations to participate at a number of SF conventions, which he continues to do. He reviewed for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette and now writes for Northshoremovies.net. He is a correspondent for Variety, the "Movie Maven" for the Jewish Advocate and teaches film—including a course on SF and horror—at Suffolk University. His essays on classic science films have appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld, Space and Time, and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of a history of FOX TV, The Fourth Network (2004) which received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include a history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team (2006) and I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies (2008).

Lunghezza stampa

190 pagine
Lingua

Inglese
Memo

Su Kindle Scribe
Data di pubblicazione

9 dicembre 2011
Dimensioni file

590 KB
Scorri Pagina

Abilitato
Word Wise

Abilitato
Miglioramenti tipografici

Abilitato
Visualizza tutti i dettagli

Dettagli prodotto

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006LACUME
Editore ‏ : ‎ Fantastic Books (9 dicembre 2011)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 590 KB
Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 190 pagine

Recensioni dei clienti:
5 voti

Informazioni sull'autore

Segui gli autori per ottenere aggiornamenti sulle nuove uscite, oltre a consigli avanzati.

Daniel M. Kimmel

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Scopri di più sui libri dell'autore, guarda autori simili, leggi i blog dell’autore e altro ancora

Recensioni clienti

4 su 5

5 valutazioni globali

5 stelle		38%
4 stelle		25%
3 stelle		37%
2 stelle 0% (0%)		0%
1 stella 0% (0%)		0%

Come funzionano le recensioni e le valutazioni dei clienti

Le recensioni migliori da altri paesi

Traduci tutte le recensioni in Italiano

Stanley Z Greenspan

Great book, love Dan's writing

Recensito in Canada 🇨🇦 il 26 agosto 2015

Acquisto verificato

I got Dan to sign it for me, got ferclemt when he did. Great book, love Dan's writing.

Traduci recensione in Italiano

K. Bunker

A guy who gets it right about SF films

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 20 maggio 2013

Acquisto verificato

This book was giving me the warm-and-fuzzies from the first two sentences of the introduction: "If there's a common theme to the essays in this book [...] it is this: science fiction films are worth discussing. Better yet, science fiction films are as worthy as any other kind of film for serious discussion."

Yowza! Preach it, Brother!

As Mr. Kimmel points out, this seemingly normal and obvious attitude is a rarity in discussion of SF films -- among reviewers, in the viewing public at large, and perhaps especially among people who create SF films. It's still a common practice for the producer, director, publicist, star, etc. of any half-way sophisticated and thoughtful SF film to proudly declare that their movie "isn't science fiction" because it's about people, or relationships, or social issues, or whatever. That is, if a movie is SF, then it's dumb entertainment, and if it isn't dumb entertainment then it ipso facto isn't SF.

So it's great to have a intelligent, knowledgeable voice like Kimmel's discussing SF films without being embarrassed to speak the phrase "science fiction." A man who knows movies and also knows SF, both on film and off.

Here are a few of the highlights in the book for me:

A fascinating discussion of how the various film versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers have reflected the profoundly different historical periods in which they were produced.

A compare-and-contrast of The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing from Another World (both 1951), showing how they reflected starkly different attitudes towards scientists and toward the unknown.

A look at the existential implications of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), and the movie's ultimate turning away from despair and towards a book-of-Job brand of religious faith.

An interesting examination of the arguments for and against calling The Time Traveler's Wife (movie, 2009) science fiction (Kimmel ultimately decides "for").

And, of course, the indisputable opinion of the title; that execrable abomination of a character must indeed die.

As a pretty hard-core SF movie fan, there were only a few films mentioned in this book that I haven't seen, and most of them I've seen several times over. But that level of involvement with the subject matter is by no means necessary to enjoying the book. Indeed, the book might be even more fun for a reader who can use it for viewing recommendations.

I suppose some readers will disagree with Kimmel's opinions from time to time, but personally I found that his tastes coincided pretty closely with mine. To my joy, he lambasts This Island Earth (1955) as a silly and illogical clunker, unredeemed by its expensive special effects, and he likewise agrees with me in admitting that Creation of the Humanoids (1962) is a "guilty pleasure"; a fun movie that combines laughable flaws with some genuine earnestness and sophistication. And likewise again with his opinions of E.T. ("It was just Spielberg pushing our buttons"), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (shallow, despite its gee-whiz visuals) and of Spielberg in general ("a showman rather than an artist").

I recommend this book to anyone even slightly interested in SF films, and I wish I could force it onto those who are disdainful of the genre.

2 persone l'hanno trovato utile

Traduci recensione in Italiano

Visualizza tutte le recensioni

Segnala un problema

Questo articolo ha contenuti inappropriati?

Segnala

Credi che questo articolo violi un copyright?

Segnala

In questo articolo sono presenti problemi di qualità o di formattazione?

Segnala

Amazon Advertising Trova, attira e coinvolgi i clienti	Amazon Music Streaming di milioni di canzoni	AbeBooks Libri, arte & articoli da collezione	Audible Download Audiolibri	Amazon Web Services Servizi Cloud Scalabili

Amazon Warehouse I nostri prodotti usati e ricondizionati	Book Depository Libri con spedizione gratuita in tutto il mondo	Kindle Direct Publishing Pubblica i tuoi libri in formato elettronico	Shopbop Designer, Marche, Fashion e stile	Amazon Business Servizio per clienti business

Acquista per altri

Acquista e invia eBook ad altri

Segui l'autore

Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Dettagli prodotto

Informazioni sull'autore

Daniel M. Kimmel

Recensioni clienti

Recensioni migliori da Italia

Le recensioni migliori da altri paesi