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    Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain

    Recontextualising the Golden Age

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    Author(s)
    Jones, Matthew
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    101291
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    For the last fifty years, discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by the view that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, classic films, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and It Came from Outer Space (1953), were regularly exported to countries across the world. The histories of their encounters with foreign audiences have not yet been told. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain begins this task by recounting the story of 1950s British cinema-goers and the aliens and monsters they watched on the silver screen. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Jones makes an exciting and important intervention in the field by locating 1950s American science fiction films alongside their domestic counterparts in their British contexts of release and reception.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29983
    Keywords
    Media & Communications; Media Studies; Nuclear technology; Science fiction; Science fiction film; Soviet Union; United States
    DOI
    10.5040/9781501322556
    ISBN
    9781501322532, 9781501352515, 9781501322532, 9781501322549, 9781501322563
    OCN
    1052108883
    Publisher
    Bloomsbury Academic
    Publisher website
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/
    Publication date and place
    New York, London, 2017-11-02
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 101291 - KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
    Classification
    Film: styles and genres
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Communism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism; Nuclear technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_technology; Science fiction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction; Science fiction film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_film; Soviet Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union; United States - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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