附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Waking into dreams: competence cascades, thick texts and the universalization of the geek aesthetic -- Director as parodist: Paul Verhoeven's Starship troopers -- Comedy 1: Galaxy quest -- The decline and fall of the alien invasion -- Comedy 2: Small soldiers and the joke of the robot -- Who are you? Cognitive dissonance and lots of really big guns -- The mirrored gaze: James Cameron's and Kathryn Bigelow's Strange days -- Creation as product: the paradox of franchises -- A franchise case study: Alien and its sequels -- Index of films -- Index.
摘要:A critical approach to science fiction films that considers them as both autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader culture, this work looks at the movies of alien invasion and movie franchises.
