Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857712748
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1423709373
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1850438056
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1850438064
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1282527878
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9781850438052
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9780755604807
,
9781850438069
,
9781423709374
,
9781282527874
,
9780857712745
Content:
A critical approach to science fiction films that considers them as both autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader culture, this work looks at the movies of alien invasion and movie franchises
Content:
Waking into dreams: competence cascades, thick texts and the universalization of the geek aesthetic -- Director as parodist: Paul Verhoeven's Starship troopers -- Comedy 1: Galaxy quest -- The decline and fall of the alien invasion -- Comedy 2: Small soldiers and the joke of the robot -- Who are you? Cognitive dissonance and lots of really big guns -- The mirrored gaze: James Cameron's and Kathryn Bigelow's Strange days -- Creation as product: the paradox of franchises -- A franchise case study: Alien and its sequels -- Index of films -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1850438056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1850438064
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kaveney, Roz From Alien to The matrix London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN 1850438056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1850438064
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755604807
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