Science fiction cinema and 1950s Britain recontextualising cultural anxiety
"Title Description: For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, classic films, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and It Came from Outer...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
2017.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438783206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Teacups and flying saucers
- Section A: Communist infiltration and indoctrination
- Soviet brainwashing, British defectors and the corruptive elsewhere
- "He can be a communist here if he wants to" : living with the monster
- Section B: Nuclear technology
- The beast in the atom : Britain's nuclear nightmares
- Atomic albion : Britain's nuclear dreams
- Section C: Race and immigration
- It came from the colonies! : mass immigration and the invasion narratives
- Loving the alien : after the Notting Hill race riots
- Section D: Britain at home and abroad
- Still overpaid, still oversexed and still over here : the American invasion of Europe
- Science fiction Britain : the nation of the future
- Conclusion.
