Science Fiction Films: 70's Critiques
- Dean, Joan F. " Between 2001 and Star Wars. " Journal of Popular Film and Television 7, No. 1 (1978): 32-41.
- Desser, David. "Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner." In Kerman, Retrofitting Blade Runner (1990). 110-123. (Metropolis, Just Imagine, Things to Come, The Time Machine, Fahrenheit 451, Soylent Green, THX1138, Escape from New York, and BR)
- Franklin, H. Bruce. A Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films from 1970-1982. In Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone. 19-31
- Ryan, Michel and Douglas Kellner. "Technophobia ." From Camera Politica. Rpt. In Kuhn, Alien Zone. (On THX1138, Logan's Run and BR)
List compiled by Jamie Jackson, Joey Poole, Katja Pettinen, and Watson Felder
- Pohl, Frederik and Frederik Pohl IV. Science Fiction Studies in Film. NY: Ace Books, 1981. Pp. 208-10 on THX1138.
- Cormier,-Raymond. A The Closed Society and Its Friends: Plato's Republic and Lucas's THX-1138 . @ Literature-FilmQuarterly, 1990, 18:3, 193-197.
- Gordon, Andrew. "The Power of the Force: Sex in the
Star Wars Trilogy."In Eros in the Mind's
Eye(1986) pp. 193-207.
Effective archetypal/Freudian interpretation which
illustrates parallels between the trilogy and Lucas's earlier
films, American Graffitiand
THX1138
- Pollack, Dale. Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas. New York: Harmony Books., 1983.
- Silverberg, Robert. A The Way the Future Looks: THX-1138 and Blade Runner. @ In Omni's Screeen Flights/ Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Danny Peary. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Co., 1984.1817-92.
- Sobchack, Vivan. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. 2nd ed. Rutgers UP, 1987, pp. on THX 1138: 97-8, 194-6.
- Strick, Phillip. Science Fiction Movies. New York: Harmony Books., 1983.
- Sturhahn, Lawrence. "Genesis of THX 1138: Notes on a Production." Kansas Quarterly 4 (Spring 1972): 47-57.
- Telotte, J. P. "The Dark Side of the Force: Star
Wars and the Science Fiction Tradition." Extrapolation 24.3 (1983): 216-26.
Focuses on thematic opposition between rational and
emotional in SF films; includes short section on
THX1138.
- Johnson, William. Review of Silent Running. Film Quarterly 25 (Summer 1972): 52-6.
- Sobchack, Vivan. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. 2nd ed. Rutgers UP, 1987, pp. on Silent Running: 71-2, 76-7, 84-5.
- Zimmerman, Paul D. Review of Silent Running. Newsweek march 20 1972: 113.
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