Alien Identities
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Alien Identities

Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Alien Identities

Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction

About this book

This is a lively and stimulating look at representations, mutations and adaptations of 'the alien' in literature, film and television. Using notions of the alien and alienation in a broadly defined sense, the contributors cover early science fiction, from the gothic aliens of Dracula and H.G. Wells, to the classic fifties Cold War sci-fi movies, such as War of the Worlds, twentieth-century reworkings of various 'alien' metaphors, such as The Fly movies and the Alien series, and comic variations on the theme such as Mars Attacks. Moving beyond the conventional genre boundaries of the alien, particular essays look, too, at 'race' as an alien condition, and at the use of illness and disease as a metaphor for alienation in modern film and fiction.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Notes on Contributors
  3. Introduction - Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction
  4. 1 Satan Bugs in the Hot Zone: Microbial Pathogens as Alien Invaders
  5. 2 America's Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/ Hemings Story
  6. 3 See Europe with ITC: Stock Footage and the Construction of Geographical Identity
  7. 4 Leaving the West and Entering the East: Refiguring the Alien from Stoker to Coppola
  8. 5 Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine
  9. 6 'The Martians Are Coming!': Civilisation v. Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks!
  10. 7 Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky s Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky s Stalker
  11. 8 Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan s to Cronenberg s The Fly
  12. 9 The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity
  13. 10 Aliens, ( M) Others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity
  14. Index