J. G. Ballard is perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s. To an ext...

J. G. Ballard is one of the most significant of those British novelists who have established themselves since 1960. Although he established his literary reputation as a science-fiction writer, he has come to believe that the present, rather than the futu...

J. G. Ballard is "perhaps the most important figure to emerge from the British New Wave of science-fiction writers, whose works brought a new degree of literary sophistication and critical respectability to the genre beginning in the late 1950s," accordi...

The sun never sets on the British Empire" was a popular saying for more than 100 years. Why? Britain once ruled an empire that stretched around the world and into nearly every time zone. It included Canada, Australia, India, and many colonies in...

J.G. Ballard's name carries cult status in Britain, where he occupies the turbulent void between science fiction and the literary avant-garde, a dim region also inhabited by his mentor, William Burroughs. He is famous for the icy and macabre notions formulated in novels...

RESCUE DAWN Running time 126 minutes Written and directed by Werner Herzog Starring Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies From his adolescent debut in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to his dramatic weight loss as a human skeleton in The Machinist, Christian Bale has never...

Despite his great body of work, beginning when he was just a boy starring in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun in 1987, Welsh-born actor Christian Bale is now firmly stamped in our memories as the latest, darkest and maybe hunkiest Batman!  Next summer he'll appear...

In the following review, Adair comments on Spielberg's “cosmic” and supernatural sensibility in Empire of the Sun.

In the following review, O'Brien notes Spielberg's tendency toward childishness and sentimentality in Empire of the Sun.

Explores the novel The Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard. Examines Ballard's use of characterization in the text, focusing on the character Jim. Describes the complex nature of good and evil as embodied in the character.

Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien - film Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg Shows how personalities drastically change during the times of war and tragedy.