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THE REEL STUFF:by Brian M. Thomsen Equally Good Things That Are Not Quite Interchangeable A friend of mine occasionally teaches a class at Hofstra and asked me if I would like to sit in as a guest participant on a few occasions. The subject was Science Fiction Writing with a secondary emphasis on film so I readily agreed to sit in on the session that was tentatively titled "When Bad Movies Happen to Good Stories." As per usual the class broke down into two distinct camps: those whose first introduction to the realm of the fantastic was through films and TV (they usually maintained that nothing can ever beat Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, or the X Files, etc., and that the printed word is inferior to moving celluloid image), and the opposing camp whose first introduction was the printed word (usually Asimov, Heinlein, or Ellison) and usually maintained that no film/dramatic adaptation of a work of fantastic fiction has ever done justice to its source material. The discussion at hand had moved on to the latest offender/cinematic masterpiece Starship Troopers when my opinion was sought. "I loved the book and I loved the movie," I replied and proceeded to explain that they were two equal

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Author

Thomsen, Brian M; Greenberg, Martin H (editor)

Publisher

DAW Books ; Seattle Book Company

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780742093034

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, History & Criticism, Humanities