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Author:   Dennis R. Cutchins ,  Dennis R. Perry
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9781476687858

ISBN 10:   1476687854
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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"""Consistently engaging, this volume's essays make a thoughtful and important contribution. I'm delighted with the focus and range of material and perspectives and am excited to see this work take its place in the body of scholarship on 1950s science fiction films.""--Dr. Cynthia J. Miller, senior faculty, Emerson College"

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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.

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