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literature list on: Douglas, Gordon
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#1
Bellin, Joshua David: Us or Them!: Silent Spring and the "big bug" films of the 1950s. In: Extrapolation 50. 2009. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 145-168.
Index:
Carson, Rachel Louise
Douglas, Gordon
Arnold, Jack
Juran, Nathan
Them! (1954)
Tarantula! (1955)
Deadly Mantis, The (1957)
Monster ~ Monster
Natur ~ Nature
Silent Spring (Literatur ~ Literature)
#2
Boss, Judith E. / Dubeck, Leroy W. / Moshier, Suzanne E.: Fantastic voyages: Learning science through science fiction films. 2nd edition. - New York: Springer 2004.
First edition:
[1994]
Description:
Includes chapters on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Peter Hyams’s 2010, Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain and The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Joseph Sargent’s The Colossus - The Forbin Project, The Day of the Triffids by Freddie Francis and Steve Sekely, Val Guest’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Richard Fleischer’s Fantastic Voyage, Fred McLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet, James L. Conway’s Hangar 18, Gordon Douglas’s Them!, George Pal’s The Time Machine and Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall.
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Hyams, Peter
Wise, Robert
Scott, Ridley
Sargent, Joseph
Francis, Freddie
Sekely, Steve
Guest, Val
Fleischer, Richard
Wilcox, Fred McLeod
Conway, James L.
Douglas, Gordon
Pal, George
Verhoeven, Paul
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
2010 (1984)
Andromeda Strain, The (1971)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Blade Runner (1982)
Colossus - The Forbin Project / Forbin Project, The / Day the World Changed Hands, The (1969)
Day of the Triffids, The (1962)
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1961)
Fantastic Voyage (1965)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Hangar 18 (1980)
Them! (1954)
Time Machine, The (1960)
Total Recall (1990)
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Wissenschaft ~ Science
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
#3
Cavanaugh, Cathy / Cavanaugh, Terence W.: Biology animal. In: Cavanaugh, Cathy / Cavanaugh, Terence W.: Teach science with science fiction films: A guide for teachers and library media specialists. - Worthington, Ohio: Linworth Publishing 2004. pp. 43 ff.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Gordon Douglas’s Them! and the episode Operation - Annihilate! (1967) from the Star Trek TV series.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
Star Trek (TV)
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Wissenschaft ~ Science
Tiere ~ Animals
Fernsehen ~ Television
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
#4
Cowan, Douglas E.: Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, religion, and The War of the Worlds - Part II. In: Journal of Religion and Film 11. 2007. No. 2. [October] p. ?P.
Description:
Discusses also Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, Rudolph Maté’s When Worlds Collide, The Day of the Triffids by Freddie Francis and Steve Sekely, Cecil Blount DeMille’s Samson & Delilah and Gordon Douglas’s Them!.
Index:
Haskin, Byron
Wise, Robert
Maté, Rudolph
Francis, Freddie
Sekely, Steve
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Douglas, Gordon
War of the Worlds, The (1953)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Day of the Triffids, The (1962)
Samson and Delilah (1950)
Them! (1954)
Wissenschaft ~ Science
Religion ~ Religion
#5
Crane, Jonathan Lake: Terror and everyday life: A history of horror. - Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. 1991. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 52. 1992. No. 7. (January) p. 2300A.]
Description:
On the history of the horror film with four examples: F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, James Whale’s Frankenstein, Gordon Douglas’s Them! and Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th.
Index:
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Whale, James
Douglas, Gordon
Cunningham, Sean S.
Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Frankenstein - The Man Who Made the Monster (1931)
Them! (1954)
Friday the 13th (1979)
Horror ~ Horror
#6
Crane, Jonathan Lake: Terror and everyday life: Singular moments in the history of the horror film. - Thousand Oakes, California; London: Sage Publications 1994.
Reviews:
Baker, neal: [untitled] In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television NS 16. 1996. No. 2. [?D] pp. 296-297.
Description:
On the history of the horror film with four examples: F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, James Whale’s Frankenstein, Gordon Douglas’s Them! and Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th.
Index:
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Whale, James
Douglas, Gordon
Cunningham, Sean S.
Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Frankenstein - The Man Who Made the Monster (1931)
Them! (1954)
Friday the 13th (1979)
Horror ~ Horror
#7
Formicula. - Nürnberg: Verlag Karin Stähle ?J. (= Super 8 Filmblätter.)
Description:
On Gordon Douglas’s Them!.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
#8
Formicula. - Nürnberg: Filmverlag Peter Schmidl 1992. (= Phantopia-Filmprogramm 169.)
Description:
On Gordon Douglas’s Them!.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
#9
Freixas, Ramón: La humanidad en peligro. In: Dirigido 2003. No. 329. [December] pp. 58-59.
Description:
On Gordon Douglas’s Them!.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
#10
Friedrich, Andreas: Formicula. In: Filmgenres: Science Fiction. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner. - Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag 2003. (= Reclams Universalbibliothek 18401.) pp. 89 ff.
Description:
On Gordon Douglas’s Them!.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
#11
Hendershot, Cyndy: Darwin and the atom: Evolution / devolution fantasies in The Beast from 20.000 Fathoms, Them!, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. In: Science Fiction Studies 25. 1998. No. 2(75). [July] pp. 319-335.
Index:
Lourie, Eugène
Douglas, Gordon
Arnold, Jack
Darwin, Charles Robert
Beast from 20000 Fathoms, The (1953)
Them! (1954)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
Atom ~ Nuclear
#12
Mitchell, Charles P. / Parla, Paul: Sandy Descher and the space child who cried Them!. In: Filmfax 1996/1997. No. 58. [October-January] pp. 105-107.
Description:
Interview with the former child actor star on her roles in Gordon Douglas’s Them! and Jack Arnold’s The Space Children.
Index:
Descher, Sandy
Douglas, Gordon
Arnold, Jack
Them! (1954)
Space Children, The (1958)
Weltraum ~ Space
Jugend ~ Youth
#13
Das Mondkalb (Way ... Way Out). - München: Verlag Filmbühne ?J. (= Illustrierte Film-Bühne 7479.)
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Way ... Way Out (1966)
#14
Olles, Werner / Wolfschlag, Claus: Way ... Way Out. In: Enzyklopädie des phantastischen Films. 71. Ergänzungslieferung. - Meitingen: Corian-Verlag, Juli 2004.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Way ... Way Out (1966)
#15
Piper, Bianca: Kulturanalyse des Katastrophenfilms. - Hamburg: Kovac 2012. (= Schriftenreihe Schriften zur Medienwissenschaft 32.)
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Robson, Mark
Meyer, Nicholas
Bay, Michael
Them! (1954)
Earthquake (1974)
Day After, The (1983)
Armageddon (1998)
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
#16
Rubin, Steven Jay: The "she" in Them!. In: Filmfax 1995. No. 50. [May/June] pp. 45-49.
Description:
On the role of actress Joan Weldon in the film by Gordon Douglas.
Index:
Weldon, Joan
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
#17
Schoell, William: Creature features: Nature turned nasty in the movies. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2008.
Description:
On scary and dangerous animals like dragons, dinosaurs, and prehistoric or mythological giants in film. Discusses especially Eugène Lourie’s The Beast from 20000 Fathoms, Gordon Douglas’s Them!, Robert Gordon’s It Came from Beneath the Sea, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Irvin S. Yeaworth’s The Blob.
Index:
Lourie, Eugène
Douglas, Gordon
Gordon, Robert
Hitchcock, Alfred
Yeaworth Jr., Irvin S.
Beast from 20000 Fathoms, The (1953)
Them! (1954)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Birds, The (1962)
Blob, The (1958)
Tiere ~ Animals
Natur ~ Nature
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Geschichte: Urzeit ~ History: Prehistory
Drachen ~ Dragons
Dinosaurier ~ Dinosaurs
#18
Seeßlen, Georg: Them!. In: Enzyklopädie des phantastischen Films. 3. Ergänzungslieferung. - Meitingen: Corian-Verlag, November 1986.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
#19
Senn, Bryan: Them! (1954). In: Senn, Bryan: A year of fear: A day-by-day guide to 366 horror films. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Them! (1954)
Horror ~ Horror
#20
Senn, Bryan: Zombies on Broadway (1945). In: Senn, Bryan: A year of fear: A day-by-day guide to 366 horror films. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Horror ~ Horror
#21
Sharp, Patrick B.: Darwin’s soldiers: Gender, evolution and warfare in Them! and Forbidden Planet. In: Science Fiction Film and Television 1. 2008. No. 2. [Autumn] pp. 215-230.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Wilcox, Fred McLeod
Darwin, Charles Robert
Them! (1954)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Krieg ~ War
#22
Stock, Stuart H. / Von Gunden, Kenneth: Twenty all-time great science fiction films. - Westport, Connecticut: Arlington House / Crown Publishers 1981.
Description:
Discusses William Cameron Menzies’s Things to Come and Invaders from Mars, Irving Pichel’s Destination Moon, Christian Nyby’s The Thing from Another World, Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alexander Mackendrick’s The Man in the White Suit, Felix E. Feist’s Donovan’s Brain, The Magnetic Monster by Curt Siodmak and Herbert L. Strock, Byron Haskin’s The War of the Worlds and Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Gordon Douglas’s Them!, This Island Earth by Jack Arnold and Joseph M. Newman, Fred McLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet, Donald Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Wolf Rilla’s Village of the Damned, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alan Cooke’s The Mind of Mr. Soames and Joseph Sargent’s Colossus - The Forbin Project.
Index:
Menzies, William Cameron
Nyby, Christian
Wise, Robert
Haskin, Byron
Douglas, Gordon
Arnold, Jack
Newman, Joseph M.
Wilcox, Fred McLeod
Siegel, Donald
Rilla, Wolf
Kubrick, Stanley
Pichel, Irving
Mackendrick, Alexander
Feist, Felix E.
Siodmak, Kurt [Pseudonym: Siodmak, Curt]
Strock, Herbert L.
Cooke, Alan
Sargent, Joseph
Things to Come (1936)
Destination Moon (1950)
Thing from Another World, The (1951)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Man in the White Suit, The (1951)
Donovan’s Brain (1953)
Magnetic Monster, The (1953)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
War of the Worlds, The (1953)
Them! (1954)
This Island Earth (1955)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
Mind of Mr. Soames, The (1970)
Colossus - The Forbin Project / Forbin Project, The / Day the World Changed Hands, The (1969)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
#23
Traber, Bodo: Die unglaublichen Geschichten des Mr. Matheson. Teil 1. In: Splatting Image 1994. No. 18. [June] pp. 17-22.
Description:
On the novels and film scripts by Richard Matheson reflecting the irrational fear of strangers in post WWII America. Discusses, among others, Gordon Douglas’s Them!, Byron Haskin’s The Power and Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Index:
Douglas, Gordon
Haskin, Byron
Arnold, Jack
Matheson, Richard
Them! (1954)
Power, The (1968)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
Angst ~ Fear
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Krieg ~ War
#24
White, Fred D.: 2001: A Space Odyssey and the betrayal of language. In: Fantastic odysseys: Selected essays from the twenty-second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Edited by Mary Pharr. - Westport, Connecticut; London: Praeger 2003. (= Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy 104.) pp. 147-153.
Description:
Discusses alsom Gordon Douglas’s Them!
Index:
Kubrick, Stanley
Douglas, Gordon
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
Them! (1954)
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