Cowan, Douglas E

摘要

I can vividly remember watching Star Wars in the 70s in a cinema house in Bombay with my youngestbrother. At the interval he asked me, "what the hell is happening?" I replied in his own terms, "It is all hell let loose." Reading through Cowan's Sacred Space, I real-ize it could as well have been all about heaven.When science fiction movies began to be made in rapid succession after the success of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, many thought these were just figments of people's over-hyped imagination. Slowly it dawned on many that directors are trying to explore the spiritu-al, metaphysical, and the transcendental sphere with whatever imagination they can have.