Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain

Matthew Jones

earliest edition we have, 2017 Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 232 pages

For the last fifty years, discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by the view 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), were regularly exported to countries across the world. The histories of their encounters with foreign audiences have not yet bee...

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Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain paperback · 2019 · Bloomsbury Academic · 240 pages · 9781501352515
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Academic · 232 pages · 9781501322532
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Academic · 9781501322556

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