TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Keith TI - H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies SN - 9781846310607 AV - PR5778. F55W55 2007 U1 - 791.436 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - Wells, H. G. KW - Science fiction, English KW - Film adaptations KW - Science fiction films KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliography: (p. [247]-268) and index; Chapter 1 Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories Chapter 2 The Dis/Appearance of the Subject: Wells, Whale and The Invisible Man Chapter 3 ‘Seeing the Future’: Visual Technology and Urban Dystopia in When the Sleeper Wakes and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Chapter 4 The ‘Broadbrow’ and the Big Screen: Wells’s Film Writing Things to Come and The Man Who Could Work Miracles Chapter 5 Afterimages: Adaptations and Influences UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008371065-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008371065-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008371065-t.html ER -