Horror and science fiction cinema and society: American culture and politics in the Cold War and after through the projector lens

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in American politics and society

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1. Verfasser: Harris, Martin (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2025
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Zusammenfassung:Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in American politics and society
Beschreibung:Introduction: Us vs. Them in Society and on the Screen1. Defending the American Way of Life Against Them!2. Surrendering Selfhood in Invasion of the Body Snatchers3. Legend or Monster? Judging The Last Man on Earth4. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Racial Antipathy in Planet of the Apes5. Divided We Fall: Conflict and Crisis in Night of the Living Dead6. Quarantine, Containment, and Covering Up in The Crazies7. Just Another Stage : Mainstreaming Feminism and the Backlash in The Stepford Wives8. The Enemy Within: Aliens Oppositions9. A Cop Movie With Aliens: Self-Reflexivity in The Hidden10. We All Sell Out Every Day : Trickle-Down Ideology in They Live 11. Foregrounding Fascism: Starship Troopers and Satirical Adaptation12. In-Groups and Out-Groups: Monsters Within and Monsters Without in The Mist13. Cloverfield, 9/11, and the New Normal14. Get Out and the Struggle to Escape Americas Post-Racial Lie15. Unity on the Surface, Division Underneath: Exploring American Discord in UsAppendix: Other Us vs. Them Horror Sci-Fi Films
Beschreibung:VIII, 245 Seiten
ISBN:9781032443010
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