Sources for "Prometheus": A Movie Review.

[Friedrich]

July 13, 2012 at 2:26 P.M. The format at Google Groups was altered,
again, to the new style that I do not want. I was forced to restore
the old format. I believe this will be necessary, every day, from now
on.

Perhaps alterations of this group are part of the anxiety and
frustration inducement or cybercrimes. I will continue to try to
regain access to the blogger dashboard. The home page of the NYPL was
altered again to what purports to be MSN. How strange? (Morningside
Heights branch.)

FILMS referenced in "Prometheus":

1. "2001, A Space Odyssey."
2. "Lawrence of Arabia."
3. "Solaris."
4. "A.I."
5. "Minority Report."
6. "A Clockwork Orange/The Shining."
7. "Dr. Zhivago."
8. "The Terminator."
9. "The Omega Man."
10. "Silent Running."
11. "I am Legend."
12. "Planet of the Apes."

BOOKS:

Works by or about Joseph Conrad:

Joseph Conrad, "The Heart of Darkness" (New York: Signet, 1991).
(1899, 1902 1st Ed.)
Bertrand Russell, 'Joseph Conrad,' in "Portraits From Memory" (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1956), pp. 86-92. (Perceptive comments on "The
Heart of Darkness" and on Conrad's character. Russell's short stories
should be examined after reading this essay. See especially, Russell's
"Satan in the Suburbs.")
Joseph Conrad, "Victory" (New York: Signet, 1991).
Joseph Conrad, "Nostromo" (New York: Signet, 1060). (Foreword by F.R.
Leavis is excellent.)
Leo Gurko, "Joseph Conrad: Giant in Exile" (New York: Collier, 1962 &
1979).

Other Selected Works:

Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream Electric Sleep?" (New York:
Ballantine, 1968). ("Blade Runner.")
Harlan Ellison, "Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in
Speculative Fiction" (New York: Collier, 1971).
Harlan Ellison, "Dangerous Visions" (New York: Signet, 1967).
(Assimov, Bloch, Ellison, Aldiss, J.G. Ballard.)
James Gunn, ed., "From Here to Forever: The Road to Science Fiction
#4" (New York: Signet, 1982). (Matheson, Borges, Zosime, Dozois,
Wolfe, Disch, and George R.R. Martin.)
Leszek Kolakowski, "Modernity on Endless Trial" (Chicago: U. Chicago
Press, 1987). (See Professor Kolakowski's "Press Conference for the
Devil.")
Stanislas Lem, "Solaris" (New York: Harcourt, 1961 1st ed.)
Judith Merril, ed., "SF-12: New Dimensions in Science Fiction, Fantasy
and Imagination" (New York: Dell, 1968). (Grass, Updike, Barthelme,
Callisher, and William Burroughs.)
Jeremy Rifkin & Ted Howard, "Entropy: A New World View" (New York:
Bantam, 1987).
Theodore Roszak, "The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein" (New York:
Random House, 1995).
William Shakespeare, "Othello" (New York: Simon & Schuster -- WSP,
1957). (Folger Lib. Ed.) (Complete Works.)
Roger Shattuk, "Forbidden Knowledge: A Landmark Exploration of the
Dark Side of Human Ingenuity and Imagination" (New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1996). ("Prometheus" and Milton's "Lucifer.")
Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein" (New York: Signet, 1965).
Laurence Sutin, "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick" (New York;
Pantheon, 1993). (Mr. Dick's collected prose contains several essays
on robots, humanity and inhumanity, and "synthetic" realities.)