LEADER 03484nam 22005295 450 001 9910631093603321 005 20251009102852.0 010 $a9783031117954 010 $a3031117956 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-11795-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7141560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7141560 035 $a(CKB)25360911800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-11795-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925360911800041 100 $a20221116d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlien-Invasion Films $eImperialism, Race and Gender in the American Security State, 1950-2020 /$fby Mark E. Wildermuth 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (318 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Wildermuth, Mark E. Alien-Invasion Films Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031117947 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- 2: An Overview of the History of American Imperialism and the American Security State -- 3: The First Post-War Security State Films, 1950-1956 -- Chapter 4: Invasion Films in the 1960?s Post-Camelot Security State -- Chapter 5: Nixon, Post-Détente and Invasion Films in the 1970s -- Chapter 6: Invasion Films in the Reagan Era -- Chapter 7: Invasion Films and the 1990s Interregnum -- Chapter 8: Invasion Films After 9/11: the Bush and Obama Regimes -- Chapter 9: Invasion Films After 9/11 in the Trump Regime -- Chapter 10: Conclusions. 330 $aThis book studies American science fiction films depicting invasions of the USA and Earth by extra- terrestrials within the context of imperialism from 1950?2020. 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, 1958?Present; and Feminism and the Western in Film and Television. 606 $aFilm genres 606 $aMotion pictures, American 606 $aGenre Studies 606 $aAmerican Film and TV 615 0$aFilm genres. 615 0$aMotion pictures, American. 615 14$aGenre Studies. 615 24$aAmerican Film and TV. 676 $a354.81150006 676 $a791.43615 700 $aWildermuth$b Mark E.$0988772 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910631093603321 996 $aAlien-Invasion Films$92965720 997 $aUNINA