"A Distant Technology is both knowledgable and inspiring: in teasing out the ambivalences of the sf films of the pre-War years concerning the 'Machine Age' they dramatise, the book fills a gap in science fiction history [which] many of us are unaware of as a gap."--Foundation: International Review of Science Fiction
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"A rigorous film history of a crucial but generally overlooked period in the development of science fiction film which transcends genre concerns to argue the importance of Machine Age cinema in the Soviet Union, Germany, France, England and the United States in the cultural construction of technology during the 1920s and 1930s. A Distant Technology argues powerfully for centrality of film in general- and the science fiction film in particular- to the cultural construction of technology in the Western World." (Brooks London, University of Iowa )
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