Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction on Film

These 14essays were presented at the Fourth Eaton Conference, which convened to create a broad dialogue concern­ing the importance of science fiction and fantasy in contemporary film. Another goal was to seek in the history and essen­tial nature of cinema the roots of the in­creasing popularity of science fiction and fantasy.

Using very different methods and widely diverse ideas of what fantasy is and where its center exists, these schol­ars and critics cover the entire span of western drama―from Méliès and Lang to recent films such as E.T., the Extra­-Terrestrial and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

George E. Slusser is Curator of the Eaton Collection and Adjunct Professor at the University of California at River­side.

Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Fantastic in Literature.