{"product_id":"invasions-usa-9781442236516","title":"Invasions USA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of more than 180 science fiction films produced in the United States between 1950 and 1959, twenty were concerned with the notion of an invasion. Of these, a select number used the invasions as metaphors of issues that were of importance to America at the time, such as assaults upon individuality and marriage and debates about the supremacy of the human race. The invasion may be real (The Day the Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds), dreamed (Invaders from Mars), or the result of a mental breakdown, as seems to be the case in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Real or not, all of these massive disturbances to the status quo convey the same anxiety: In the 1950s, many Americans felt that things in their world weren't quite right, and this sense of unease was expressed in the country's art, notably these films.In Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s, Michael Bliss examines movies that stripped away the veneer of normality during a decade often portrayed as\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvasions USA is a pretty good read, especially if you’ve seen the films he’s chosen to discuss. * Free Kittens Movie Guide *\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the decade [of the 1950s] there were almost 200 science-fiction films made, some of which could be read as analogies of communist brain washing, a particularly divisive subject at the time of McCarthyism. In his book, Invasions USA: The Essential Science Fiction Films of the 1950s, author Michael Bliss rejects the often held notion that these films were propaganda tools dealing with American anxieties but rather focuses on sexual politics in such cult films as the colorfully titled I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958) or about alienation (pardon the pun) in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). . . .The book is a quick and easy read that rarely diverts from its subject. * Filmwerk *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Chapter One: Sleepwalking: Invaders from Mars Chapter Two: His Little Town: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Chapter Three: Ecce Humanitas: The Day the Earth Stood Still Chapter Four: We Don’t Like Your Kind Here: It Came from Outer Space Chapter Five: Welcome to My Nightmare: I Married a Monster from Outer Space Chapter Six: Two Aliens from Inner Space: Kronos and The Thing from Another World Chapter Seven: Invading from Space and Slouching into It: When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, Conquest of Space Chapter Eight: Spiritual Enhancement: The Incredible Shrinking Man Bibliography Filmography Index About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039907512663,"sku":"9781442236516","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442236516.jpg?v=1750945216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invasions-usa-9781442236516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}