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(2016) The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Two major things happen to SF in the last decades of the 20th century. The more important of the two is that it undergoes a transformation, becoming increasingly a genre dominated by visual media and especially by what we might call visual spectacularism, a special sub-genre of cinema that is predicated upon scale and grandeur, special effects, the creation of visually impressive alternate worlds, the realisation of events and beings liable to amaze.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_13
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Roberts, A. (2016). Sf screen media, 1960–2000: hollywood cinema and tv, in The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 383-419.