Description
Book SynopsisA lively re-examination of the 'alien' as metaphor in film and fiction
Trade Review'An inventive collection of essays' -- SCOPE: An online journal of film studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction - 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
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