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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction – Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction by Heidi Kaye and I.Q. Hunter
1. Satan Bugs in the Hot Zone: Microbial Pathogens as Alien Invaders by Peter Hutchings
2. America’s Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/Hemings Story in Fiction and Film by Sharon Monteith
3. See Europe with ITC: Stock Footage and the Construction of Geographical Identity by Nick Freeman
4. ‘Leaving the West and Entering the East’: Refiguring the Alien from Stoker to Coppola by Paul O’Flinn
5. Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine by Jonathan Bignell
6. ‘The Martians are Coming!’: Civilisation v. Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks! by Liz Hedgecock
7. Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky’s Stalker by John Moore
8. Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan’s to
Cronenberg’s The Fly by Karin Littau
9. The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity by Martin Flanagan
10. Aliens, (M)Others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity by Patricia Linton
Index
Circa l’autore
Imelda Whelehan is a Research Professor in English and Gender Studies. Her books include, Classics in Film and Fiction (Pluto Press, 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (CUP, 2007) and Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism (Palgrave, 2014).
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