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Alien Identities

Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction

Deborah Cartmell editor Imelda Whelehan editor I Q Hunter editor Heidi Kaye editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th Mar '99

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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.

'An inventive collection of essays' -- SCOPE: An online journal of film studies

ISBN: 9780745314006

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 274g

208 pages