It is no secret that Hollywood is the Ouroboros, the snake that consumes itself, endlessly remaking and reinventing, hoping to create itself anew so the audience doesn’t realise
The film industry is constantly in change – the introduction of sound, then colour, cinemascope, 3D, digital, each of which has seen new innovators and pioneers. As with
While the fantastical has become the dominant form of genre entertainment for children, for adults science fiction and horror have remained the prevailing forms. Despite the superficial similarities
Through the late sixties and early seventies, horror was a genre in transition. While Britain remained in the comparatively genteel but fading grasp of Hammer and its sibling
How do you sum up fifty years of travel, adventure and excitement, troubles and conflicts, hopes and disappointments, with clarity and context, in just over three hundred pages?
Genre has always been looked down upon by the establishment, science fiction a ghetto occupied by fanciful writers of whimsy, horror regarded as lower still, lurid and base,
With over three hundred editions produced during the fourteen year run from 1970 to 1984, BBC’s Play for Today strand was conceived as immediate and contemporary, offering political
On the afternoon of Friday 20th September, we were delighted to have a lengthy chat with one of the pioneering producers of contemporary radio, Dirk Maggs, about his
1966 was an important year for science fiction. In America, Samuel Delaney and Larry Niven released their novels Babel 17 and Neutron Star, Fantastic Voyage was a summer
