james.doherty@gsa.gov
24 Aug 99 16:01:00 -0400
Re Jiro's recent post"
"In the fifties there were a couple of film noirs that told
about the nuclear disasters: "Kiss Me Deadly", "The City of
Fear" and "Panic in the Streets". Could they be classified as
SF?"
*Panic in the Streets* was about the threat of Bubonic
plague, not nuclear holocaust, and since it was a
dramatization of a true-life case, it probably can't count as
Sci-Fi (to a native Bay Arean like me SF means
"San Francisco" not "science fiction"). Three other '50s
crime films about nuclear holocaust are *Seven Days to Noon*,
*Split Second*, and *The Atomic City*. I'd say they don't
count as sci-fi because they were dealing with technology
that was possible in the era in which they were made, whereas
*Blade Runner*, etc., deal with futuristic technology that
does not yet exist. - Jim Doherty
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