The Eternal Future of the 1950s
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Science fiction cinema, once relegated to the undervalued "B" movie slot, has become one of the dominant film genres of the 21st century, with Hollywood alone producing more than 400 science fiction films annually. Many of these owe a great deal of their success to the films of one defining decade: the 1950s.
Essays in this book explore how classic '50s science fiction films have been recycled, repurposed, and reused in the decades since their release. Tropes from Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), for instance, have found surprising new life in Netflix's wildly popular Stranger Things. Interstellar (2014) and Arrival (2016) have clear, though indirect roots in the iconic 1950s science fictions films Rocketship X-M (1950) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and The Shape of Water (2017) openly recalls and reworks the major premises of The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954). Essays also cover 1950's sci-fi influences on video game franchises like Fallout, Bioshock and Wolfenstein.
Dennis R. Cutchins is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. He's a former Alcuin Fellow and the associate director of honors. He is currently working on ways to apply cognitive brain research to adaptation studies. Dennis R. Perry is a professor emeritus of English at Brigham Young University. He specialized in American literature and film adaptation.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Past and Present Future
Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
Part I: Adapting a 1950s Science Fiction Aesthetic
Presenting Frank Darabont's The Mist (2007) in Glorious Black & White: The Remaking of a 1950s Sci-Fi Aesthetic
Greg Semenza
Retro Reboots: Adapting 1950s Science Fiction in Bioshock, Fallout, and Wolfenstein
Daniel Singleton
The Truth Is Out There: 1950s Science Fiction, The X-Files, and the Shifting Dynamics of National Anxiety
Jessica Metzler
Part II: Monsters Within and Without
Extinction Panic: Prehistoric Creatures of the Anthropocene
Zak Bronson
"Forget the world and hang on to the people you care about the most": Giant Monster Movies from the 1950s and Their Twenty-First-Century Counterparts
Robin Jeremy Land
"Something's lost in the translation!" Hemimetabolic Adaptation (or Incomplete Metamorphosis) in David Cronenberg's The
Richard Berger
Adapting the Monstrous Other: del Toro Re-Shapes Creature from the Black Lagoon
Glenn Jellenik
Part III: Alien Invasions
The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing from Another World, and the Creation of Two Archetypes
Dennis R. Cutchins
Queer Anxieties and Perverse Desires in the Alien Infiltration Film
Mica A. Hilson
The War of the Worlds: Masculine Heroism and Symbolic Spaces in Invasion Narratives
Joan Ormrod
The Space Children and the Alien: Magic and Paranoia at World's
Dennis R. Perry
The Alien in the Graveyard: Extraterrestrial Reanimation in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space and Walter Mosley's The Wave
Paul Piatkowski
Double Trouble: Martin Guerre, Invaders from Mars, and the Body Snatchers Films
Sam Umland
Part IV: Other Worlds and Dystopian Visions
Escaping Earth: The Uninhabitable Home in Rocketship X-M, Interstellar, and Ad Astra
Christopher Love
From the Promise of the 1950s to the Uncertainty of the 1960s: The Surety of Forbidden Planet Against the Empty Center of Solaris
Robert Mayer
New Maps of Hell: Racebending and Fahrenheit
William Hart
Still Captive? The Maternal Body in 1950s Science Fiction Disaster Films and Mad Max: Fury Road
Rebecca Johinke
Afterword: Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Double Consciousness of Science Fiction
Thomas Leitch
About the Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 41 photos |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 177 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8785-4 / 1476687854 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8785-8 / 9781476687858 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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