Alien identities : exploring difference in film and fiction / edited by Deborah Cartmell ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartmell, Deborah.

Series:

Film/fiction ; v. 4.

Film/fiction ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

Noncitizens in motion pictures.

Monsters in motion pictures.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A lively re-examination of the 'alien' as metaphor in film and fiction.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction - Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction ""; ""Notes""; ""Further Reading""; ""1 Satan Bugs in the Hot Zone: Microbial Pathogens as Alien Invaders ""; ""Notes""; ""2 America's Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/ Hemings Story""; ""Notes""; ""3 See Europe with ITC: Stock Footage and the Construction of Geographical Identity ""; ""Notes""; ""4 Leaving the West and Entering the East: Refiguring the Alien from Stoker to Coppola ""; ""Notes""

""5 Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine """"Notes""; ""6 'The Martians Are Coming!': Civilisation v. Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks! ""; ""Notes""; ""7 Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky s Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky s Stalker ""; ""Notes""; ""8 Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan s to Cronenberg s The Fly ""; ""Notes""; ""9 The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity ""; ""Notes""

""10 Aliens, ( M) Others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity """"Notes""; ""Index""; ""absence of generic framework 165""; ""Acres, Birt, 95""; ""action films, 157""; ""Adams, John 41""; ""Adams, John Quincy 41""; ""adaptability""; "" of myth, 82""; "" of species [in Alien series], 158""; ""adaptation""; "" in The Fly , 146-7""; "" in The Fly , 146-7""; "" in The Fly , 149""; "" in The Fly , 149""; "" of book to film, 104-5""; "" of book to film, 146""; "" of book to film, 152-3""; ""Adventures of Robin Hood The [ATV, 1955] 50""; ""Africa, depicted as alien""

"" 18-19"""" 23""; "" 26""; "" 27""; ""African Americans""; "" alienation of, 4""; "" alienation of, 33""; "" alienation of, 39-40""; "" alienation of, 42-3""; "" and black rights, 42-3""; "" descent from slaves, 31""; ""Alien film series, hybridity in""; "" 7""; "" 156-70""; ""Alien Resurrection""; "" female agency in, 182-4""; "" female agency in, 185""; "" hybridity in, 173""; "" hybridity in, 176""; "" monstrosity of aliens, 175-6""; "" relationship, 180-2""; "" [ 7""; "" [ 156""; "" [ 158""; "" [ 167-9""; ""Alien [1979]""; "" 2""; "" 156""

"" 158"""" 165""; "" as horror film, 159-61""; "" as horror film, 166""; "" survival of Ripley, 160-1""; ""Alien3 [1992]""; "" 156""; "" 158""; "" 165-7""; ""alienation""; "" in everyday life, 122""; "" of African Americans, 4""; "" of African Americans, 33""; "" of African Americans, 39-40""; "" of African Americans, 42-3""; "" of individual, 124-7""; "" of individual, 124-7""; "" of individual, 133-4""; "" of individual, 133-4""; "" to disorientate, 59""; ""Aliens [1986]""; "" 156""; "" 158""; "" 165""; "" as war film, 161""

"" as war film, 161""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645133

1849645132

9780585426624

0585426627

OCLC:

923330109