Star Trek and The Stepford Wives - This week

TRIESTE TREKKIES!  Beam yourselves over to American Corner Trieste.  This Tuesday and Thursday at 8 pm, 2 more evenings of classic Science Fiction in the SCI-FI CONTACTS: from Text to Screen Series.  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join Giulia Iannuzzi as she gives some literary background as an introduction to the show and enjoy the show!


5) 8 October - Star Trek, TV series (first series 1966–1969), created by Gene Roddenberry, USA.

- The Naked Time (50 min.): adapted as a short story by James Blish, in Star Trek (1967). Orbiting planet Psi 2000, a strange affliction infects the starship Enterprise crew, destroying their inhibitions....

- Arena (50 min.): adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story Arena (1944) (teleplay by Gene L. Coon). Captain Kirk from the Federation starship Enterprise battles an alien captain who destroyed a Federation outpost.

 
6) 10 October - The Stepford Wives, directed by Bryan Forbes, 1975, USA, 115 min. Adaptation of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives (novel, 1972). Starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise; screenplay by William Goldman.
Joanna moves to the idyllic Connecticut suburb of Stepford, with beautiful housework obsessed housewives and an odd Men’s Club. An example of sci-fi engaged in gender and political themes.