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oapen-20.500.12657-299832024-03-25T09:51:33Z Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain Jones, Matthew Media & Communications Media Studies Nuclear technology Science fiction Science fiction film Soviet Union United States thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFN Film: styles and genres 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. 2018-06-06 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:34 2020-04-01T12:41:38Z 2020-04-01T12:41:38Z 2017-11-02 book 650575 OCN: 1052108883 9781501322532 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29983 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501322549.pdf 9781501322563.epub Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781501322556 101291 10.5040/9781501322556 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781501322532 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New York, London 101291 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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