Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Days of Man on Earth is decked out with an abundance of style by Robert Fuest, who designed, direct ed and wrote it, somewhat overreaching himself in that last department. The movie, even though adapted from a nov el by Science-Fiction Specialist Michael Moorcock, is chaotic for most of its first half. It is also a great deal...
...material quite seriously and treats it with respect. He has to; he's not only getting story, structure and characters gratis, but he's getting a perfect medium for parody of a much broader scope. Dr. Frankenstein was a first, a great film, which provoked a rash of science fiction movies over the next decade or so that decreased in merit as the form became increasingly stylized. Brooks pokes fun, although only randomly and superficially, at an era's worth of cinematic convention, parodying the bathos and pretentious moralizing of the sci-fi genre (from scientist...
Other characters are the stereotypes of science fiction stories deliberately overturned. The lab assistant, usually a mousily intelligent character who worships the Professor from afar, is here the dumbest blonde on film and never wears a lab coat. Because she has a heart of gold and sleeps with the Doctor without making a big fuss, she gets her man. Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee is gorgeous, but a fastidious prude--until she falls madly in love with the monster. The monster, hideous and despised by human society, becomes a sex symbol. Peter Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything...
...writers are part of the market system, then in terms of raw statistics Japan's writers have kept abreast of its industries. 30,000 books were published in Japan in 1973, most of them fiction. 90 million people read Japan's 1400 monthly magazines, and the 1973 daily newspaper circulation was 55 million, just under the comparable U.S. figure, even though the tiny island-nation has only half the population. Despite their weighty numerical achievements Japan's writers have not maintained a favorable balance of trade: while about 1000 foreign books were translated into Japanese in 1973, less than fifty...
...four-hour masterpiece became critically important in 1967 when Brown took over as the financially strapped theater's artistic director. From the start, he made it a playwrights' company, in contrast to New Haven's other theater, the Yale Repertory Theater, which emphasizes technical experimentation. A fiction writer in his college days, Brown says: "I like language in the theater, and I don't believe theater is at its best as mime or dance...