Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was widely perceived as another 'B' movie thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated in the 1950s. Yet the film addresses numerous issues brewing in post-war US society, including the Cold War, McCarthyism and the changing dynamics of gender relations. In the fifty years since the film's release, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged classic of American cinema. With its narrative of emotionless alien duplicates replacing average folk, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first post-war horror film to locate th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84457-278-6
- EAN: 9781844572786
- Produktnummer: 7878183
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H19.0 cm x B13.5 cm x D0.8 cm 202 g
- Abbildungen: 96 p.
- Gewicht: 202
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
BARRY KEITH GRANT is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992), co-author with Steve Blandford and Jim Hillier of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001), co-author with Jim Hillier of 100 Documentary Films (2009) and editor of The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1995).
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