{"product_id":"the-eternal-future-of-the-1950s-9781476687858","title":"The Eternal Future of the 1950s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Science fiction cinema, once relegated to the undervalued B movie slot, has become one of the dominant film genres of the 21st century, with Hollywood alone producing more than 400 science fiction films annually. Many of these owe a great deal of their success to the films of one defining decade: the 1950s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Essays in this book explore how classic ''50s science fiction films have been recycled, repurposed, and reused in the decades since their release. Tropes from Don Siegel''s \u003ci\u003eInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), for instance, have found surprising new life in Netflix''s wildly popular \u003ci\u003eStranger Things. Interstellar\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) have clear, though indirect roots in the iconic 1950s science fictions films \u003ci\u003eRocketship X-M\u003c\/i\u003e (1950) and \u003ci\u003eThe Day the Earth Stood Still\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), and \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) openly recalls and reworks the major premises of \u003ci\u003eThe Creature From the Black Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e (1954).  Essays also cover 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsistently engaging, this volume's essays make a thoughtful and important contribution. I'm delighted with the focus and range of material and perspectives and am excited to see this work take its place in the body of scholarship on 1950s science fiction films.\"—Dr. Cynthia J. Miller, senior faculty, Emerson College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unique, fascinating and well-written...helpful to other scholars of sci-fi yet at the same time accessible to general readers.\"—Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Bartlett Chair in Free Speech and Expression, Bridgewater State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Past and Present Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Adapting a 1950s Science Fiction Aesthetic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresenting Frank Darabont's The Mist (2007) in Glorious Black \u0026amp; White: The Remaking of a 1950s ­Sci-Fi Aesthetic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreg Semenza\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetro Reboots: Adapting 1950s Science Fiction in Bioshock, Fallout, and Wolfenstein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaniel Singleton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Truth Is Out There: 1950s Science Fiction, The ­X-Files, and the Shifting Dynamics of National Anxiety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJessica Metzler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Monsters Within and Without\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtinction Panic: Prehistoric Creatures of the Anthropocene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZak Bronson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Forget the world and hang on to the people you care about the most\": Giant Monster Movies from the 1950s and Their ­Twenty-First-Century Counterparts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobin Jeremy Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Something's lost in the translation!\" Hemimetabolic Adaptation (or Incomplete Metamorphosis) in David Cronenberg's The\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard Berger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdapting the Monstrous Other: del Toro ­Re-Shapes Creature from the Black Lagoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlenn Jellenik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Alien Invasions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing from Another World, and the Creation of Two Archetypes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDennis R. Cutchins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer Anxieties and Perverse Desires in the Alien Infiltration Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMica A. Hilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe War of the Worlds: Masculine Heroism and Symbolic Spaces in Invasion Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoan Ormrod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Space Children and the Alien: Magic and Paranoia at World's\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDennis R. Perry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Alien in the Graveyard: Extraterrestrial Reanimation in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space and Walter Mosley's The Wave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Piatkowski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble Trouble: Martin Guerre, Invaders from Mars, and the Body Snatchers Films\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSam Umland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV: Other Worlds and Dystopian Visions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEscaping Earth: The Uninhabitable Home in Rocketship ­X-M, Interstellar, and Ad Astra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristopher Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Promise of the 1950s to the Uncertainty of the 1960s: The Surety of Forbidden Planet Against the Empty Center of Solaris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Mayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Maps of Hell: Racebending and Fahrenheit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Hart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStill Captive? The Maternal Body in 1950s Science Fiction Disaster Films and Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebecca Johinke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Double Consciousness of Science Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Leitch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742571200855,"sku":"9781476687858","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476687858.jpg?v=1758385307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-eternal-future-of-the-1950s-9781476687858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}