Movie Fantastic - Beyond the Dream Machine, by David Annan

Movie Fantastic - Beyond the Dream Machine, by David Annan. 1974 softcover. 132 pages, very nice condition.

Three hundred stills, line drawings, and poster reproductions take us inside the fantasy machine of the cinema, bringing to light the archetypal themes of human thought and feeling as expressed in sci-fi and horror movies. In the depths behind the images on the screen, we meet myths and monsters which have haunted our mins from the time of the caveman, only to reappear in the age of cinema and the computer. How did the Ancient Greeks invent 2001: A Space Odyssey? Why did the fire of Promethues lead to The Return of She? Does Byron’s Vampire walk again as Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee? This book gives us the understanding behind the shudder, the meaning beind the death mask: Myths, Machines, Visions, and Nightmares – four chapters in the hallucinatory history of cinema.