Science Fiction Treatments of History
2016
Computer Files, Websites
We commonly think of science fiction as dealing with the future, but there is a fascinating subset of science fiction that looks at the past. Learn how science fiction writers often mix real-life history with fiction and invoke mechanisms such as time travel to explore alternate histories—looking at how the world might have been different had history gone another direction at pivotal points in our past. One illuminating example of this approach, Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, was recently turned into a series by Amazon..
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Author:
The Great Courses (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Imprint:
The Great Courses, 2016.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (34 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
In Process Record.Title from title frames.FilmOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2016.In English
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
418626
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/239665/external-image - Cover Image