Alien Legacies
The Evolution of the Franchise
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2023. július 10.
- ISBN 9780197556023
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem274 oldal
- Méret 156x235x25 mm
- Súly 685 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 25 b&w film stills 477
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Rövid leírás:
As a media franchise, the film Alien has enjoyed a large and devoted fanbase for over four decades. This new book engages with the franchise in all its forms: not just the original film, but its sequels, prequels, and multimedia offshoots like comic books, audiobooks, action figures and videogames, to offer fresh perspectives on the Alien universe. What is it about Alien that still fascinates audiences, and why does it still matter so many years after its birth?
TöbbHosszú leírás:
The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb audiences upon its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one ?mashup? franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelizations, games, and an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien and its progeny have animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of fields and methodological perspectives.
This book brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Alien through a contemporary lens. The chapters here demonstrate the extent to which its effects and reception are deeply multifaceted, with the Alien franchise straddling the lines between ?high? and ?low? culture, playing with generic categories, crossing media boundaries, and animating theoretical, critical, and political debates. Chapters touch on female agency and motherhood, the influence of H.R. Giger, the viscerality of Alien's body horror, the narrative tradition of the Female Gothic, the patriarchal gaze in the Alien video games, and the rise of in-universe online marketing campaigns.
In so doing, the volume aims to debate Alien's legacy, consider its current position within visual culture, and establish what the series means--and why it still matters--forty years since its birth.
Tackling sequels, prequels, games and comics, Alien Legacies is a thoughtful and engaging demonstration not only of the diversity and sheer scale of the Alien franchise, but also its continuing resonance and interest for media studies scholars.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Foreword
Robert Kolker
1. Introduction
Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame
2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A sense of abjection regarding ?the perfect organism?
Sara Louise Wheeler
3. Fractal Patterns out of Chaos in Ridley Scott's Alien, Prometheus and Covenant
Carrie Lynn Evans
4. The Progeny of H.R. Giger
Christopher L. Robinson
5. The Unescapable Labyrinth: Archetypal Retrogression and Aesthetic Rigidity in Alien3
Kenneth Sloane
6. ?Building Better Worlds?: The Rise of Alien's Online Marketing Campaigns
Kim Walden
7. ?What The Hell Is That??: A Transmedial approach to Taxonomic Ambiguity and Horror Affect in the Alien franchise
Zoé N. Wible
8. From Personal Files to Blueprints: Exploring the Alien Universe through Epistolary Paratexts
Tonguç Ibrahim Sezen
9. ?Must be a chick thing?: Ripley, the Alien franchise and the Female Gothic
Frances A. Kamm
10. Making the Mother: Pro/Creation and Female Agency in the Alien Series
Jonathan A. Rose and Florian Zitzelsberger
11. Melodrama of the Unknown Woman Lost in Space: A Cavellian Reading of the Alien Franchise
Mario Slugan
12. Remediating Ripley: Negotiating the Patriarchal Gaze in the Alien Franchise Video Games
Bronwyn Miller
13. Hissing in the Airvents: Decoding the Narrative-Verse of Alien: Isolation (2014)
Reuben Martens
