Examines various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they have evolved over time.
Examines various types of the on-screen alien visitor story, featuring a liberal array of alien types, designs and motives. Each chapter spotlights a specific film or TV series, offering comparative analyses and detailing the tropes, themes and cliches and how they have evolved over time.
A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. They Came from Beyond: A Short History of the UFO Phenomenon Two. The Biggest Story That Could Ever Happen to Our World: Alien Invasion Films Three. They Come in Peace: Friendly Alien Visitors Four. Now and Then We All Are Aliens: ET Infiltrators and Body Snatchers Five. Might for Right, Not Might Makes Right: Alien Superheroes Six. The Invasion Has Already Happened: UFO Abductions Seven. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Alien Immigrant Eight. Cuckoos from Space: Spacemen, Rape and Human/Alien Hybrids Nine. When Ancient Astronauts Attack: Gods from Outer Space on Screen Ten. Destroy All Monsters Before They Destroy Us: Monsters from Space Eleven. Loving the Alien: Interplanetary Love Stories Twelve. Little Aliens Everywhere: Children, Teenagers and Spacemen Thirteen. Laugh, Spaceman, Laugh: Alien Visitor Comedies Fourteen. Government Denies Knowledge: UFO Cover-Ups and the Men in Black Fifteen. Another Kind of Alien Hybrid: The Genre Mashup Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. They Came from Beyond: A Short History of the UFO Phenomenon Two. The Biggest Story That Could Ever Happen to Our World: Alien Invasion Films Three. They Come in Peace: Friendly Alien Visitors Four. Now and Then We All Are Aliens: ET Infiltrators and Body Snatchers Five. Might for Right, Not Might Makes Right: Alien Superheroes Six. The Invasion Has Already Happened: UFO Abductions Seven. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Alien Immigrant Eight. Cuckoos from Space: Spacemen, Rape and Human/Alien Hybrids Nine. When Ancient Astronauts Attack: Gods from Outer Space on Screen Ten. Destroy All Monsters Before They Destroy Us: Monsters from Space Eleven. Loving the Alien: Interplanetary Love Stories Twelve. Little Aliens Everywhere: Children, Teenagers and Spacemen Thirteen. Laugh, Spaceman, Laugh: Alien Visitor Comedies Fourteen. Government Denies Knowledge: UFO Cover-Ups and the Men in Black Fifteen. Another Kind of Alien Hybrid: The Genre Mashup Notes Bibliography Index
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