In the 1950s, science fiction (SF) invasion films played a
complicated part in both supporting and criticizing Cold War
ideologies. George examines what these films reveal about the
tensions in the United States at the dawn of the atomic, age
especially concerning gender roles and expectations. Using a
cultural studies approach, she works from the assumption that
"invasion" films with their "us" versus "them" nature provide
important visual and verbal narratives for American citizens'
trying to understand and negotiate the social and political changes
that followed the allied victory in World War II. By reading these
invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, primarily
white Americans' excitement and anxieties about social and
political issues, George shows how they often played out as another
round in the battle of the sexes. This book examines the way
representation in these films tap into anxieties concerning the
feminine and alien other.
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