Alien-invasion films : imperialism, race and gender in the American security state, 1950-2020 / / Mark E. Wildermuth

• Autore: Wildermuth Mark E.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Disciplina: 354.81150006
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism in motion pictures
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 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 -- 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) -- 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 -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Alien-Invasion Films
• ISBN: 3-031-11795-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910631093603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II