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Author Grant, Barry Keith

Title Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Published Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource
Series BFI film classics
BFI film classics.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Popcorn and Podsnappery; 2 Pod People; 3 The Siegel Question; 4 Roots and Tendrils; 5 Politics of the Pods; 6 The Meaning of Fear; 7 Bad Seeds; Notes; Credits; Select Bibliography
Summary With its paranoid plot of alien duplicates replacing average American folk, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first horror film to locate the monstrous in the everyday. Barry Keith Grant's comprehensive study traces the film's production and reception history, and explores themes of genre, communism and conformity and gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111)
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Invasion of the body snachers (Motion picture : 1956)
Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1956) fast
Subject PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1844575624
9781844575626