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The Aliens Are Here: Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television

The Aliens Are Here: Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television


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Aliens: They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh. For more than a century, movies and television shows have speculated about the form and motives of alien life forms. Movies first dipped their toe into the genre in the 1940s with Superman cartoons and the big screen's first story of alien invasion (1945's The Purple Monster Strikes). More aliens landed in the 1950s science fiction movie boom, followed by more television appearances (The Invaders, My Favorite Martian) in the 1960s. Extraterrestrials have been on-screen mainstays ever since.

This book examines various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they have evolved over time. Highlighted subjects include Eternals, War of the Worlds, The X-Files, John Carpenter's The Thing and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.



Table of Contents:
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. They Came from Beyond: A Short History of the UFO Phenomenon
Two. The Biggest Story That Could Ever Happen to Our World: Alien Invasion Films
Three. They Come in Peace: Friendly Alien Visitors
Four. Now and Then We All Are Aliens: ET Infiltrators and Body Snatchers
Five. Might for Right, Not Might Makes Right: Alien Superheroes
Six. The Invasion Has Already Happened: UFO Abductions
Seven. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Alien Immigrant
Eight. Cuckoos from Space: Spacemen, Rape and Human/Alien Hybrids
Nine. When Ancient Astronauts Attack: Gods from Outer Space on Screen
Ten. Destroy All Monsters Before They Destroy Us: Monsters from Space
Eleven. Loving the Alien: Interplanetary Love Stories
Twelve. Little Aliens Everywhere: Children, Teenagers and Spacemen
Thirteen. Laugh, Spaceman, Laugh: Alien Visitor Comedies
Fourteen. Government Denies Knowledge: UFO ­­Cover-Ups and the Men in Black
Fifteen. Another Kind of Alien Hybrid: The Genre Mashup
Notes
Bibliography
Index


About the Author :
A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Review :
“It is a book worth reading for science fiction film enthusiasts. The detailed book unfolds the entire film catalog of alien types and how they have evolved over time.”—Scandinavian UFO Information


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476685045
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 251
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1476685045
  • Publisher Date: 20 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 251
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 530 gr


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