Alien-invasion films : imperialism, race and gender in the American security state, 1950-2020 / Mark E. Wildermuth.
Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
2022
PN1995.9.S26 W55 2022
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Title Alien-invasion films : imperialism, race and gender in the American security state, 1950-2020 / Mark E. Wildermuth.
Author Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-
ISBN 3031117956 electronic book
9783031117954 (electronic bk.)
3031117948
9783031117947
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11795-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-11795-4 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.S26 W55 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43615
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.
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ALIEN INVASION FILMS.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Origins and Evolution of Reverse Invasion/Reverse Colonial Narratives
Method and Organization
Works Cited
Chapter 2: An Overview of the History of American Imperialism and the American Security State
The Inception of American Imperialism
The Earliest American Security States
The Next Stage in the American Twentieth-Century Security State: Détente and Beyond
The Reagan Era: After Détente and After the Apocalypse
The 1990s: An Interregnum?
The Post-9/11 Neo-imperialist Security States

Later 9/11 Security States: The Obama and Trump Administrations
Works Cited
Chapter 3: The First Postwar Security State Invasion Films, 1950-1956
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Earth Versus the Flying Saucers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Invasion Films in the 1960s Post-Camelot Security State
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon (1964)
The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Works Cited

Chapter 5: Nixon, Post-détente, and Invasion Films in the 1970s
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Invasion Films and the Reagan Era
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Aliens (1986)
Predator (1987)
Communion (1989)
Works Cited
Chapter 7: Invasion Films and the 1990s Interregnum
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues (1993)
Alien3 (1992)

Alien Resurrection (1997)
Independence Day (1996)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Men in Black (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
Work Cited
Chapter 8: Invasion Narratives After 9/11: The Bush and Obama Regimes
War of the Worlds (2005)
Cloverfield (2008)
Star Trek (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Prometheus (2012)
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Invasion Films After 9/11 in the Trump Regime
Alien Covenant (2017)
Arrival (2016)
Captive State (2019)
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Conclusions

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