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Author:
Jones, Matthew, 1984- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015006511
Title:
Science fiction cinema and 1950s Britain : recontextualising cultural anxiety / Matthew Jones.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academican imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Science fiction films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--Social aspects.
Science fiction films.
Great Britain.
Film.
Geschichtswissenschaft.
Science-Fiction-Film.
Großbritannien.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Teacups and flying saucers -- Section A: Communist infiltration and indoctrination -- Soviet brainwashing, British defectors and the corruptive elsewhere -- "He can be a communist here if he wants to": living with the monster -- Section B: Nuclear technology -- The beast in the atom: Britain's nuclear nightmares -- Atomic albion: Britain's nuclear dreams -- Section C: Race and immigration -- It came from the colonies!: mass immigration and the invasion narratives -- Loving the alien: after the Notting Hill race riots -- Section D: Britain at home and abroad -- Still overpaid, still oversexed and still over here: the American invasion of Europe -- Science fiction Britain: the nation of the future -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
1501322532
9781501322532
OCLC:
(OCoLC)995355581
LCCN:
2017020566
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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