Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
9783031117954
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3031117956
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Origins and Evolution of Reverse Invasion/Reverse Colonial Narratives -- Method and Organization -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: An Overview of the History of American Imperialism and the American Security State -- The Inception of American Imperialism -- The Earliest American Security States -- The Next Stage in the American Twentieth-Century Security State: Détente and Beyond -- The Reagan Era: After Détente and After the Apocalypse -- The 1990s: An Interregnum? -- The Post-9/11 Neo-imperialist Security States
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Later 9/11 Security States: The Obama and Trump Administrations -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The First Postwar Security State Invasion Films, 1950-1956 -- The Thing from Another World (1951) -- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) -- War of the Worlds (1953) -- Earth Versus the Flying Saucers (1956) -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Invasion Films in the 1960s Post-Camelot Security State -- Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) -- H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon (1964) -- The Bamboo Saucer (1968) -- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) -- Works Cited
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Chapter 5: Nixon, Post-détente, and Invasion Films in the 1970s -- The Andromeda Strain (1971) -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) -- Alien (1979) -- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Invasion Films and the Reagan Era -- John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) -- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) -- Aliens (1986) -- Predator (1987) -- Communion (1989) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Invasion Films and the 1990s Interregnum -- Fire in the Sky (1993) -- Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues (1993) -- Alien3 (1992)
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Alien Resurrection (1997) -- Independence Day (1996) -- Star Trek: First Contact (1996) -- Men in Black (1997) -- Starship Troopers (1997) -- The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) -- Work Cited -- Chapter 8: Invasion Narratives After 9/11: The Bush and Obama Regimes -- War of the Worlds (2005) -- Cloverfield (2008) -- Star Trek (2009) -- District 9 (2009) -- Battle: Los Angeles (2011) -- Prometheus (2012) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Invasion Films After 9/11 in the Trump Regime -- Alien Covenant (2017) -- Arrival (2016) -- Captive State (2019) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Conclusions
Content:
Works Cited -- Index
Content:
This book studies American science fiction films depicting invasions of the USA and Earth by extra- terrestrials within the context of imperialism from 19502020. It shows how such films imagine America and its allies as objects of colonial control. This trope enables filmmakers to explore the ethics of American interventionism abroad either by defending the status quo or by questioning interventionism. The study shows how these films comment on American domestic hegemonic practices regarding racial or gender hierarchies, as well as hegemonic practices abroad. Beginning with the Cold War consensus in the 1950s, the study shows how hegemony at home and abroad promotes division in the culture. Mark E. Wildermuth is Dunagan Professor of English at the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, USA, where he has taught since 1992. He has published articles in journals like The Journal of Popular Film and Television and Philosophy and Rhetoric. He has published 4 books: Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema; Print, Chaos and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture; Gender, Science Fiction Television and the American Security State, 1958Present; and Feminism and the Western in Film and Television
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031117948
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031117947
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031117954
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031117948
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031117947
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031117948
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wildermuth, Mark E., - 1956- Alien-invasion films Cham : Palgrave MacMillan, 2022 ISBN 9783031117947
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Science-Fiction-Film
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Außerirdische Intelligenz
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Invasion
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Imperialismus
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Sicherheitspolitik
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Geschichte 1950-2010
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