Book ID: CBB514146210

Gendering science fiction films: Invaders from the suburbs (2013)

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George, S.A. (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 193
Language: English

In the 1950s, science fiction (SF) invasion films played a complicated part in both supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. George examines what these films reveal about the tensions in the United States at the dawn of the atomic, age especially concerning gender roles and expectations. Using a cultural studies approach, she works from the assumption that "invasion" films with their "us" versus "them" nature provide important visual and verbal narratives for American citizens' trying to understand and negotiate the social and political changes that followed the allied victory in World War II. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, primarily white Americans' excitement and anxieties about social and political issues, George shows how they often played out as another round in the battle of the sexes. This book examines the way representation in these films tap into anxieties concerning the feminine and alien other.

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Review Hannah Carilyn Gunderman (2016) Review of "Gendering science fiction films: Invaders from the suburbs". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (pp. 85-86). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stuart Joy
Parker, Traci
Terence McSweeney
Hilck, Karin
Robbins, Mark W.
Patton, Elizabeth
Concepts
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Science fiction
Technology and gender
Science and literature
Broadcasting, radio and television
Popular culture
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
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