Science Fiction Cinema And 1950s Britain —— Recontextualising Cultural Anxiety

----- 科幻电影和1950年代的英国:境化性文化焦虑

ISBN: 9781501322532 出版年：2017 页码：241 Matthew Jones Bloomsbury Publishing

For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims 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), and less familiar productions, such as it! the terror from beyond space (1958), 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 by locating american science fiction films alongside their domestic counterparts in their british contexts of release and reception. He offers a radical reassessment of the genre, demonstrating for the first time that in britain, which was a significant market for and producer of science fiction, these films gave voice to different fears than they did in america.