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Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of nine films that do more than portray an invasion. These films use the invasions as metaphors for assaults against the integrity of various things, such as the self, marriage, and notions involving the supremacy of the human race.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Chapter One: Sleepwalking: Invaders from Mars
Chapter Two: His Little Town: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Chapter Three: Ecce Humanitas: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Chapter Four: We Don't Like Your Kind Here: It Came from Outer Space
Chapter Five: Welcome to My Nightmare: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Chapter Six: Two Aliens from Inner Space: Kronos and The Thing from Another World
Chapter Seven: Invading from Space and Slouching into It: When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, Conquest of Space
Chapter Eight: Spiritual Enhancement: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
About the Author
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael Bliss, Senior Instructor in English at Virginia Tech, has worked as a newspaper film critic, a film festival associate director, copywriter for motion picture theaters in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Kansas City, technical editor on cinema, and American correspondent for the British magazine Making Better Movies. He is the author of eleven books including Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
Zusammenfassung
Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of nine films that do more than portray an invasion. These films use the invasions as metaphors for assaults against the integrity of various things, such as the self, marriage, and notions involving the supremacy of the human race.
