... women play in cinema. The earliest film to treat fantasy, if not science fiction proper, was Le voyage dans la lune(A Trip to the Moon), created by the French film-maker and magician Georges Mélies in 1902. However Science-fiction cinema was, until the 1970s, increasingly focused on unnatural creatures, such as King Kong and Godzilla, giving rise to a subgenre ... the real and representations of the real, the virtual are blurred. Both films can perhaps also be seen to refer back to some of the original concerns od Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, first published in 1817, in the way in...

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