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Monsters in the Machine : Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II /

"During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these f...

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Autor principal: Hantke, Steffen, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Monsters in the Machine; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction A Bright New Future, With Monsters ; Chapter One Military Stock Footage ; Chapter Two Veterans ; Chapter Three The Southwest ; Chapter Four Decolonization ; Conclusion The Long Shadow of the Fifties ; Notes ; Works Cited.