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The Aliens Are Here - Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television (Paperback)
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The Aliens Are Here - Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television (Paperback)
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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 The Eternals,
War of the Worlds, The X-Files, John Carpenter's The Thing and
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
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