Lost in space: television as science fiction icon. From: Journal of Popular Film and Television | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Telotte, J.P. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract: During the early decades of film, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, the popular perception of a competing media technology, television, was already beginning to take shape. Because the technology itself was still largely a futuristic fantasy, an icon often associated with science fiction, it frequently appears in science fiction films of the era and in a variety of roles, some positive but many others negative, even threatening. The author examines how television functi...

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