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American and British Science Fiction in Television

2023-11-18 14:23:48

"Longevity and prosperity" may be a word that brings good memories to ordinary American geeks, but this may not be the case for typical British nerds. Although the science fiction series of television is very popular in the history of the United States and Britain very much. Since the 1960's, "New Wave" science fiction novel began to take over the screen of television. "New wave" is science fiction (Wolf) characterized by advanced experiments. It was during this time that the United States and Britain started playing a series of science fiction novels that had a great influence on society.

At the same time, Science fiction began to appear on a new kind of media - TV. In 1953, the Quatermass experiment was aired on British television which is the first important SF novel, but may also be called a horror movie. In the United States, SF heroes like Captain Video, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers are screening and these shows are similar to Campbell's pre-science fiction. Under editor H. L. Gold and Editor of Frederik Pohl, Galaxy highlighted more literary forms of science fiction. And it got clues from more mainstream literature. Compared to Campbell's amazing thing, its claim to scientific rationality is not that strong. Most Golden Age writers can continue writing adaptively to this type of change, but the rise of the Galaxy shows the end of the Golden Age science fiction. However, some people have moved to other fields. Isaac Asimov and some others almost completely started to write scientific facts

I was leading the theme of British SF TV in the 1970s: retreat of post apocalyptic era, ancient legends and myths, supernatural and mysticism continue to emerge. SF comedy emerged as a specific chain; post apocalyptic return to feudalism gave new twists; the image of the Cold War and the fear of nuclear warfare became the focus of several series, single drama and children's play It was. New adaptation of classic books also shows a return to tradition and tradition, as well as a reduction in imports from the United States.

British SF TV continues to evoke a new era of politically diverse attitude, eschatological insecurity, and interest in the environment and our ancient origins. However, when Star Wars opened in 1977, that optimism reflected the resurgence of conservative moral and political ideology, which ultimately led to Thatcher and Reagan election. In the mid - 1970 's, pessimism and isolationism dominated the British SF novel drama on TV. Gry Anderson's Universe: In 1999, UFO's pessimistic tone was redefined and first appeared in 1975. Moonbase Alpha colonies were injected into outer space after the explosive nuclear waste bomb exploded from orbit. Shooting started in luxury and a vision of luxury for the future in December 1973.