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Author Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-

Title Alien-invasion films : imperialism, race and gender in the American security state, 1950-2020 / Mark E. Wildermuth
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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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
Science fiction films -- Political aspects
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Diplomatic relations
Imperialism in motion pictures
Science fiction films
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
Subject United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3031117956
9783031117954