Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen

Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828-1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth. One of the most widely translated authors of all time, Verne has inspired filmmakers since the early silent period and continues to fascinate audiences more than one hundred years aft

Author: Brian Taves
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/06/2015
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780813161129

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 06/12/2015 pg. 18

About the Author

Brian Taves is a film archivist with the Library of Congress. He is the author of more than one hundred articles and six books, including The Romance of Adventure: The Genre of Historical Adventure Movies and Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer.

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