Alien Identities: Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0745314007 ISBN 13: 9780745314006

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 1999

Riassunto

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. Alien Identities is a timely, carefully themed and much-needed study of an increasingly popular subject.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Deborah Cartmell is a Principal Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. I.Q. Hunter is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfot. Heidi Kaye is a former Senior Lecturer in English and Womens Studies at De Montfort. All four are editors of the previous titles in the Film/Fiction series. Imelda Whelehan is a Principal Lecturer in English and Women's Studies at De Montfort.

Contenuti:

Introduction - Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction Heidi Kaye and I.Q. Hunter 1 Satan Bugs in the Hot Zone: Microbial Pathogens as Alien Invaders Peter Hutchings 2 America's Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/Hemings Story in Fiction and Film Sharon Monteith 3 See Europe with ITC: Stock Footage and the Construction of Geographical Identity Nick Freeman 4 ‘Leaving the West and Entering the East’: Refiguring the Alien from Stoker to Coppola Paul O'Flinn 5 Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine Jonathan Bignell 6 'The Martians are Coming!': Civilisation v. Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks! Liz Hedgecock 7 Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky's Stalker John Moore 8 Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan's to Cronenberg's The Fly Karin Littau 9 The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity Martin Flanagan 10 Aliens, (M)Others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity Patricia Linton Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0745314007
• ISBN 13: 9780745314006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Redattore: Cartmell Deborah