Stein Michael
Stein Michael - Alien Invasions! The History Of Aliens In Pop Culture - Hardcover
Stein Michael - Alien Invasions! The History Of Aliens In Pop Culture - Hardcover
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Description: Aliens are coming for you! For the first time ever read how aliens have invaded pop culture in all its guises and forms in this definitive history spanning over 100 years. See how depictions of aliens have evolved over the years in popular and pulp magazines comics on TV and in movies! Readers will meet aliens with eyes on stalks robot aliens (as in H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds) barrel chested aliens (as per Frank R. Paul's Martian of the 1930s) blob - like B - movie aliens of the 1950s "realistic" aliens as featured in the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (supposedly based on the real alien found at Roswell) monstrous aliens such as H. R. Giger's creature in Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien the friendly alien (a thin creature with hands and a tortoise - like head) that's the "hero" of Spielberg's 1982 movie E. T.: The Extra - Terrestrial aerial predator aliens with giant wings (as created by Wayne Barlow for his book Expedition in 1990) - - and many more. Whether friendly visitor or fearsome invader we learn that both the motive for and method of invasion has often been influenced by the social mood and politics of the era in which the magazine comic or movie was published or released. As for aliens chosen method of invasion not all aliens use ray guns to invade. Instead they employ "seed pods " mind control and body transference - - just a few of the alternative methods used by aliens to invade the minds and bodies of humans thus bending them to their submission. Visualized through the prism of pop culture in this thoroughly engaging 176 - page book which features more than 200 full - color illustrations all of which are accompanied by extensive captions. Beginning with an overview of the Alien Invasion genre and continuing through nine chapters filled with the most insightful nuggets of information and eye - popping graphics this side of the Van Allen radiation belt.
Title: Alien Invasions! The History Of Aliens In Pop Culture
Author(s): Stein Michael
Publisher: Idea & Design Works
Barcode: 9781684057108
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2020
Category: Popular Culture
Description: Aliens are coming for you! For the first time ever read how aliens have invaded pop culture in all its guises and forms in this definitive history spanning over 100 years. See how depictions of aliens have evolved over the years in popular and pulp magazines comics on TV and in movies! Readers will meet aliens with eyes on stalks robot aliens (as in H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds) barrel chested aliens (as per Frank R. Paul's Martian of the 1930s) blob - like B - movie aliens of the 1950s "realistic" aliens as featured in the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (supposedly based on the real alien found at Roswell) monstrous aliens such as H. R. Giger's creature in Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien the friendly alien (a thin creature with hands and a tortoise - like head) that's the "hero" of Spielberg's 1982 movie E. T.: The Extra - Terrestrial aerial predator aliens with giant wings (as created by Wayne Barlow for his book Expedition in 1990) - - and many more. Whether friendly visitor or fearsome invader we learn that both the motive for and method of invasion has often been influenced by the social mood and politics of the era in which the magazine comic or movie was published or released. As for aliens chosen method of invasion not all aliens use ray guns to invade. Instead they employ "seed pods " mind control and body transference - - just a few of the alternative methods used by aliens to invade the minds and bodies of humans thus bending them to their submission. Visualized through the prism of pop culture in this thoroughly engaging 176 - page book which features more than 200 full - color illustrations all of which are accompanied by extensive captions. Beginning with an overview of the Alien Invasion genre and continuing through nine chapters filled with the most insightful nuggets of information and eye - popping graphics this side of the Van Allen radiation belt.
Title: Alien Invasions! The History Of Aliens In Pop Culture
Author(s): Stein Michael
Publisher: Idea & Design Works
Barcode: 9781684057108
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2020
Category: Popular Culture
