Alien Identities: Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction (Film Fiction)

A lively and stimulating look at representations, mutations and adaptations of 'the alien' in literature, film and television. Using notions of the alien and alienation in a broadly defined sense, the contributors cover early science fiction, from the gothic aliens of Dracula and H.G. Wells, to the classic fifties Cold War sci-fi movies, such as War of the Worlds, twentieth-century reworkings of various 'alien' metaphors, such as the Fly movies and the Alien series, and comic variations on the theme such as Mars Attacks. Moving beyond the conventional genre boundaries of the alien, particular essays look, too, at 'race' as an alien condition, and at the use of illness and disease as a metaphor for alienation in modern film and fiction. Alien Identities is a timely, carefully themed and much-needed study of an increasingly popular subject. Contents......Page 4 Notes on Contributors......Page 6 1......Page 9 Further Reading......Page 16 exercise, 11......Page 19 and otherness, 28......Page 36 Constitution [ 31......Page 39 Notes......Page 53 colour programming, 49-50......Page 57 Australia, Saint episode set in 64-5n......Page 72 66......Page 74 adaptability of, 82......Page 90 The Time Machine , 87-9......Page 95 Trip to the Moon , A [1902] 101......Page 109 104-6......Page 112 on science fiction film, 117......Page 125 121-2......Page 129 138-9n......Page 146 141......Page 149 principles of, 153......Page 161 156......Page 164 170......Page 178 172......Page 180 power of female agency, 185......Page 193 Index......Page 195 165......Page 173 95......Page 103 First Blood [ 157......Page 165 Vesey, Denmark, slave 41......Page 49 of genre, 158-9......Page 166 146-9......Page 154 149......Page 157 Woolf, Virginia 152......Page 160 Third Man , The [1949] 50......Page 58 containment 18......Page 26 and human evolution, 23-5......Page 31 26......Page 34 27-8......Page 35 and freedom, 4......Page 12 role of slavery in, 33-4......Page 41 O'Brien, Conor Cruise 39......Page 47 Wald, Priscilla, Constituting Americans 42......Page 50 7......Page 15 power of female agency, 182-4......Page 190 173-4......Page 181 176......Page 184 feminist, 175......Page 183 in Alien series, 180-4......Page 188 167......Page 175 2......Page 10 Star Wars [1977] 159-60......Page 167 166......Page 174 and Final Girl, 160-1......Page 168 122......Page 130 hopes for, 124......Page 132 re-working of Roadside Picnic , 133......Page 141 appeal of, 59-60......Page 67 Terminator , The [1984] 161......Page 169 in Alien series, 162......Page 170 The Time Machine , 6......Page 14 12......Page 20 92-3......Page 100 machine, 99......Page 107 164......Page 172 and imperialism, 81......Page 89 fear of, 184......Page 192 of alien, 76......Page 84 Whedon, Joss 168......Page 176 13......Page 21 Bram Stoker's Dracula , 77......Page 85 racial foundations of, 37-8......Page 45 Jameson, Fredrick 38......Page 46 slave novels, 40......Page 48 43......Page 51 theatre, artificiality in 54......Page 62 and stylised artificiality, 58-60......Page 66 65n......Page 73 73......Page 81 Roth, Phyllis 68......Page 76 White, Hayden 35......Page 43 stock film footage, 61......Page 69 and alien worlds, 100-1......Page 108 imperialism of, 107-8......Page 115 The Time Machine , 93-4......Page 101 Simpson, Anne B. 110......Page 118 142......Page 150 143-4......Page 151 containment 21-2......Page 29 Z Cars [BBC, 1962] 53......Page 61 78......Page 86 Oldman, Gary 79......Page 87 in Alien series, 163......Page 171 on science fiction film, 105......Page 113 sexuality, absent in 106-7......Page 114 Wayles, Martha, wife of 32......Page 40 24......Page 32 25......Page 33 56-7......Page 64 Virginia 34......Page 42 The Time Machine , 91......Page 99 94......Page 102 machine, 96......Page 104 98......Page 106 16......Page 24 Williamson, Judith 17......Page 25 51-2......Page 59 view of Europe, 52......Page 60 136-7......Page 144 14......Page 22 Diseases], 20......Page 28 UN Agency, in Stalker 123......Page 131 racial foundations of, 5......Page 13 Merchant, Ishmail 36......Page 44 relationship, 178-9......Page 186 144-5......Page 152 67-8......Page 75 cyborgs and hybrids, 177......Page 185 of cyborgs, 183-4......Page 191 alienness of experience, 88-90......Page 96 Darwinian, 109......Page 117 57......Page 65 and otherness, 63......Page 71 Satan Bug , The [Maclean] 15......Page 23 Diseases], 19......Page 27 structuring of Dracula , 69-71......Page 77 and imperialism, 72......Page 80 55......Page 63 in The Fly , 151-2......Page 159 flawed, 148-9......Page 156 147......Page 155 181......Page 189 men, as creator 179-80......Page 187 Friedberg, Anne 89......Page 97 work 60......Page 68 National Association of Colored Women 44......Page 52 Sobchack, Vivian 116......Page 124 169......Page 177 112......Page 120 The Time Machine , 115......Page 123 174-5......Page 182 fear of, 80......Page 88 Sculpting in Time , 131......Page 139 destruction, 22-3......Page 30 128-9......Page 136 re-working of Roadside Picnic , 134-5......Page 142 genetic, 150-1......Page 158 The Lair of the White Worm , 74......Page 82 3......Page 11 information flow 145......Page 153 Reagan, Ronald 114......Page 122 The Lady of the Shroud , 75......Page 83 Turkey, locating shots of 62......Page 70 132-4......Page 140 and British colonisation, 108......Page 116 97-100......Page 105 127-9......Page 135 130......Page 138 111-12......Page 119 re-working of Roadside Picnic , 129-30......Page 137 The Lady of the Shroud , 71......Page 79 telekinesis as image of 137-8......Page 145 in Mars Attacks!, 113-14......Page 121 135......Page 143 vagabonds, use of term 126-7......Page 134 29n......Page 37 This is a lively and stimulating look at representations, mutations and adaptations of'the alien'in literature, film and television. Using notions of the alien and alienation in a broadly defined sense, the contributors cover early science fiction, from the gothic aliens of Dracula and H.G. Wells, to the classic fifties Cold War sci-fi movies, such as War of the Worlds, twentieth-century reworkings of various'alien'metaphors, such as The Fly movies and the Alien series, and comic variations on the theme such as Mars Attacks. Moving beyond the conventional genre boundaries of the alien, particular essays look, too, at'race'as an alien condition, and at the use of illness and disease as a metaphor for alienation in modern film and fiction. "Ranges widely on the theme of the alien to explore how various cultures and times have determined their own collective and individual sense of identity through external as well as internal contrast. The chapters in the first section consider the alien in the sense of foreigner; those in the second look at humanity's own alien identity; and those in the final part examine ideas of hybridity in the Alien film series itself."--Page 1 "Ranges widely on the theme of the alien to explore how various cultures and times have determined their own collective and individual sense of identity through external as well as internal contrast. The chapters in the first section consider the alien in the sense of foreigner; those in the second look at humanity's own alien identity; and those in the final part examine ideas of hybridity in the Alien film series itself." --p. 1 A lively reexamination of the 'alien' as metaphor in film and fiction. Wide-ranging case studies include Dracula from Stoker to Coppola; British spy television series such as The Prisoner; and the work of H.G. Wells