Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Wells's Prescience
- 1 Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories
- 2 The Dis/Appearance of the Subject: Wells, Whale and The Invisible Man
- 3 ‘Seeing the Future’: Visual Technology in When the Sleeper Wakes and Fritz Lang's Metropolis
- 4 The ‘Broadbrow’ and the Big Screen: Wells's Film Writing
- 5 Afterimages: Adaptations and Influences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Wells's Prescience
- 1 Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories
- 2 The Dis/Appearance of the Subject: Wells, Whale and The Invisible Man
- 3 ‘Seeing the Future’: Visual Technology in When the Sleeper Wakes and Fritz Lang's Metropolis
- 4 The ‘Broadbrow’ and the Big Screen: Wells's Film Writing
- 5 Afterimages: Adaptations and Influences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007