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• control field: DLC

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: WaU
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcgft

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• Genre/form term: Space operas (Motion pictures)

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• Genre/form term: Space adventure films

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• Genre/form term: Space exploration films

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• Genre/form term: Space films

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• Genre/form term: Space flight films

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• Genre/form term: Space travel films

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• Genre/form term: Action and adventure films

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• Control subfield: g
• Genre/form term: Science fiction films

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• Source citation: Work cat.: Flash Gordon (Motion picture : 1936). Rocket ship, 1980.

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• Source citation: Last starfighter (Motion picture). The last starfighter, 2009.

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• Source citation: López, D. Films by genre, ©1993:
• Information found: p. 274 (subgenre listed under Science Fiction Film: Space Operas. Applied to space adventure stories with spaceships on some rescue mission or with intergalactic starships battling enemy forces, bug-eyed monsters and the like. A famous recent example is Star Wars (1977). Examples listed include: Flash Gordon (1936); Buck Rogers (1939); Barbarella (1967); Star Trek (1979); Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Space Raiders (1983); The Last Starfighter (1984); separate subgenre also listed: Space Travel Films (Space Exploration Films, Space Films, Space Flight Films). "Space operas fit into a different class of space flight films.")

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• Source citation: Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2019
• Information found: (Category: Space opera films; films belonging to the space opera subgenre of science fiction; category has the following 2 subcategories: American space opera films; Space adventure films‎)

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• Source citation: Evans, J. Top 5 space opera films, via ScienceFiction.com website, posted July 28, 2011, viewed on Jan. 22, 2019
• Information found: ("Space opera" is a phrase that defines a genre of science fiction literature, and can also be applied as a category for movies. Typically, space opera occurs on a galactic scale, involves intelligent races other than humans, and has multiple types of spacecraft, from speedy corvettes to battleships capable of destroying planets. There is plenty of action and adventure in space opera. One thing you can be nearly certain of when watching a space opera film is that you won't get bored)

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• Source citation: Wright, G. The science fiction image : the illustrated encyclopedia of science fiction in film, television, radio and the theater, ©1983, via Google books, viewed Jan. 22, 2019:
• Information found: p. 282 (space opera films)

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• Source citation: Erickson, M. Science, culture and society, 2016:
• Information found: p. 185 (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982); the film is a good example of the subgenre of space opera, where heroic spaceship captains save the world after monumental and visually exciting space battles) p. 190 (three key features that a space opera must have: a spaceship, an exciting adventure story and a tendency towards a formulaic plot or mediocrity)

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• Explanatory text: Large-scale action and adventure films involving space travel.