Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society: American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens [Paperback]

Introduction: Us vs. Them in Society and on the Screen
1. Defending the American Way of Life Against Them!
2. Surrendering Selfhood in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Legend or Monster? Judging The Last Man on Earth
4. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Racial Antipathy in Planet of the Apes
5. Divided We Fall: Conflict and Crisis in Night of the Living Dead
6. Quarantine, Containment, and Covering Up in The Crazies
7. Just Another Stage: Mainstreaming Feminism and the Backlash in The Stepford Wives
8. The Enemy Within: Aliens Oppositions
9. A Cop Movie With Aliens: Self-Reflexivity in The Hidden
10. We All Sell Out Every Day: Trickle-Down Ideology in They Live
11. Foregrounding Fascism: Starship Troopers and Satirical Adaptation
12. In-Groups and Out-Groups: Monsters Within and Monsters Without in The Mist
13. Cloverfield, 9/11, and the New Normal
14. Get Out and the Struggle to Escape Americas Post-Racial Lie
15. Unity on the Surface, Division Underneath: Exploring American Discord in Us
Appendix: Other Us vs. Them Horror Sci-Fi Films

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of ?increasing polarization in American politics and society.

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