Description |
1 online resource (x, 315 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction -- An Overview of the History of American Imperialism and the American Security State -- The First Postwar Security State Invasion Films, 1950-1956 -- Invasion Films in the 1960s Post-Camelot Security State -- Nixon, Post-détente, and Invasion Films in the 1970s -- Invasion Films and the Reagan Era -- Invasion Films and the 1990s Interregnum -- Invasion Narratives After 9/11: The Bush and Obama Regimes -- Invasion Films After 9/11 in the Trump Regime -- Conclusions |
Summary |
This book studies American science fiction films depicting invasions of the USA and Earth by extra- terrestrials within the context of imperialism from 19502020. It shows how such films imagine America and its allies as objects of colonial control. This trope enables filmmakers to explore the ethics of American interventionism abroad either by defending the status quo or by questioning interventionism. The study shows how these films comment on American domestic hegemonic practices regarding racial or gender hierarchies, as well as hegemonic practices abroad. Beginning with the Cold War consensus in the 1950s, the study shows how hegemony at home and abroad promotes division in the culture. Mark E. Wildermuth is Dunagan Professor of English at the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, USA, where he has taught since 1992. He has published articles in journals like The Journal of Popular Film and Television and Philosophy and Rhetoric. He has published 4 books: Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema; Print, Chaos and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture; Gender, Science Fiction Television and the American Security State, 1958Present; and Feminism and the Western in Film and Television |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2023) |
Subject |
Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Science fiction films -- Political aspects
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Imperialism in motion pictures.
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Diplomatic relations
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Imperialism in motion pictures
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Science fiction films
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
3031117956 |
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9783031117954 |
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