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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Michael Bliss teaches English and film criticism at Virginia Tech. He is the author of many articles and books, including Dreams within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir (2000), Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo (2002), and Peckinpah Today (2012).
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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.
