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Alien

By Roger Luckhurst

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2014
ISBN
9781838713614, 9781844577880
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11243610 bytes)
Pages
\90
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 19:55:50

Description

A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring films of modern cinema – its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst examines its origins as a monster movie script called Star Beast, dismissed by many in Hollywood as B-movie trash, through to its afterlife in numerous sequels, prequels and elaborations. Exploring the ways in which Alien compels us to think about otherness, Luckhurst demonstrates how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings about the fragility of humanity. This special edition features original cover artwork by Marta Lech.

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