BOOKS

Rick Altman, Film/Genre, 1999, British Film Institute, London

Page 14
"Genres may be defined as patterns/forms/styles/structures that transcend individual films"

"genre as structure, as the formal framework on which individual films are founded"

Owen Jones, The Establishment, 2015, Penguin Books, Great Britain

Page 6 
"Politicians and media worked almost hand in hand in glove to promote the myth that people who should be held responsible for the nation's multiple social and economic ills are those at the bottom of the pecking order, rather than those at the top."

Page 8
"The modern Establishments relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potntial opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society." 

Steve Neale, genre and Hollywood, 2000, Routledge, Fetter Lane

Page 101
"Thus 'the major visual impulse of all SF films is to pictorialize the unfamiliar, the non-existent, the strange and the totally alien - and to do so with a verisimilitude which is, at time, documentary in favour an style.' 

Mike Savage, Social Class in the 21st Century

"The British upper class was adaptable and confident, driving forward what economic historians have called 'gentlemanly capitalism', which was embedded in imperialist power and development"

"Classes are indeed being fundamentally remade."

Susan T. Fiske, Hazel Rose Markus, Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction 

Page 167
"Social class is intertwined with the every fabric of everyday life." 

"Social-class identity is fundamentally shaped by subjective perceptions of rank vis-a-vis others."

Page 167
"We have outlined how rank perceptions guide the behaviours of upper-and lower-class individuals and provide the basis for the ways in which social class is signalled to face-to-face interactions." 

Christina Correa, Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality 

Page 2
"Science fiction as that branch of literature that deals with the human response to changes in the level of science and technology"


Page 4
"The reader of science fiction is caught between that which exists outside of the laws of a known world and that which might be read as a logical extension of the known world."

Page 7
"Science fiction has certainly borrowed from both the musical and horror film... numerous moments in science fiction films when the narrative flow is stalled to make way for visual spectacle resembles the way in which song and/or dance number are commonly structured into the narrative of a musical film." 

Keith M. Johnston, Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction 

Page 7
"genres do not exist a priori...genres are cultural creations that are formed and reformed on a regular basis, prone to shifts in emphasis and meaning."

Page 7
"science fiction, stories based around advanced technology, robotics, space exploration or time travel are likely candidates of such standard genre narratives."

David Duff, Modern Genre Theory

Page 6
"Decorum, this doctrine is the idea that genre and styles are ordered hierarchically, and that the hierarchy of literary genres should reflect and maintain social hierarchies"

Gordon Marshall, Howard Newny, David Rose, Social Class in Modern Britain 

"Ordinary people are now convinced that there is no alternative to the morality of the acquisitive society; that Britain's seemingly intractable economic problems are quite beyond human control; that social inequalities are therefore unalterable."

"Within Britain this is creating much more diverse and uneven economic structure sectors (and thus geographical locations) may well be increasing."