Research Guides: Speculative Fiction and Fantasy: Film and Multimedia

Films

Fahrenheit 451
Call Number: PN1997 FAR 2003
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Total Recall
Call Number: PN1997 TR 2001
Movie explodes out of the year 2084 A.D. with gut crunching, white knuckle, nonstop action, as Quaid/Hauser smashes his way through a horrifyingly real fantasy world.
Mad Max
Call Number: PN1995.9 MAD 1993
Futuristic story about Australia's road culture.
Frankenstein
Call Number: PR5397 FRA 1997
Existenz
Call Number: PN1997 EXI 1999
ISBN: 9780788817991
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Call Number: PN1997 TWO 2007
ISBN: 9781419830587
Mankind finds a mysterious artifact buried on the moon and with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest to Jupiter.
Jurrassic Park
Call Number: PN1997 JP 2000
ISBN: 9780783219783
n a remote island off Costa Rica, wealthy entrepreneur John Hammond has created Jurassic Park. It features real live dinosaurs, cloned by using actual dinosaur DNA found in amber. Prompted by his lawyer, Hammond recruits paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, and eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm to take a guided tour of the park, evaluate it, and give it a seal of approval. Hammond's visiting grandchildren, Tim and Lex, are along for the ride, which is interrupted by a tropical storm and industrial sabotage.
2010: the year we make contact
Call Number: PN1995 TWO
ISBN: 0792810910
While planet Earth poses on the brink of disaster, a team of Russian and American scientists hurtle to a rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

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Frankenstein

"The first work of science fiction?

Some people consider Frankenstein the first work of science fiction. It is the first to suggest negative consequences of scientific and technological events. "

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Science Fiction in Film

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From Title: Robots: The Real History of Science Fiction

The creators and actors of influential science fiction books and films cite the excitement and threats of space exploration, time travel and artificial intelligence in their works.

Films

Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Call Number: PN1995.9 TJD 2000
ISBN: 9780784017302
A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded. (156 min.).
The Thing From Another World
Call Number: PN1997 TFA 2010
ISBN: 9780780643451
"Arctic researchers discover a huge, frozen spaceling inside a crash-landed UFO, then fight for their lives after the murderous being emerges from icy captivity."
Men in Black
Call Number: PN1997 .M4 2000
ISBN: 0767802624
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
Aliens
Call Number: PN1995.9 ALN 1999
Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.

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Films

The Terminator
Call Number: PN1997 TER 2007
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends in indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Minority Report
Call Number: PS3554 MR 2002
ISBN: 0783270550
In the dazzlingly futuristic Washington D.C. of 2054, murder has been eliminated. John Anderton presides over the Department of Pre-Crime, wherein three "Pre-Cogs,"--precognitive humans drifting in a flotation tank, their brain waves tapped by computers--pick up thoughts of premeditated murder and warn the cops, who swoop down and arrest the would-be perpetrators before the killings can take place. Although the Pre-Cogs are never wrong sometimes they disagree. The dissenting Pre-Cog is said to have filed a minority report. If you could outsmart the Pre-Cog system, you would have committed the perfect crime. Bureau director Lamar Burgess tries to shield Anderton from bureaucrats like Danny Witwer of the Justice Department. As the pre-crime strategy prepares to go national, Witwer seems to have doubts about its wisdom--or he is only jealous of its success?
Star Wars
Call Number: PN1997 STW 1992
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.