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ISBN-10 :  0197556051 

ISBN-13 :  9780197556054

Author:  Nathan Abrams, Gregory Frame 

The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb audiences upon its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one “mashup” franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelizations, games, and an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien and its progeny have animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of fields and methodological perspectives.This book brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Alien through a contemporary lens. The chapters here demonstrate the extent to which its effects and reception are deeply multifaceted, with the Alien franchise straddling the lines between “high” and “low” culture, playing with generic categories, crossing media boundaries, and animating theoretical, critical, and political debates. Chapters touch on female agency and motherhood, the influence of H.R. Giger, the viscerality of Alien‘s body horror, the narrative tradition of the Female Gothic, the patriarchal gaze in the Alien video games, and the rise of in-universe online marketing campaigns.In so doing, the volume aims to debate Alien‘s legacy, consider its current position within visual culture, and establish what the series means–and why it still matters–forty years since its birth.

Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction—Alien: The Evolution of the Franchise
2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A Sense of Abjection Regarding “the Perfect Organism”
3. Fractal Patterns Out of Chaos in Ridley Scott’s Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant
4. The Progeny of H. R. Giger
5. The Unescapable Labyrinth: Archetypal Retrogression and Aesthetic Rigidity in Alien3
6. “Building Better Worlds”: The Rise of Alien’s Online Marketing Campaigns
7. “What the Hell Is That?”: A Transmedial Approach to Taxonomic Ambiguity and Horror Affect in the Alien Franchise
8. From Personal Files to Blueprints: Exploring the Alien Universe through Epistolary Paratexts
9. “Must Be a Chick Thing”: Ripley, the Alien Franchise and the Female Gothic
10. Making the Mother: Pro/Creation and Female Agency in the Alien Series
11. Melodrama of the Unknown Woman Lost in Space: A Cavellian Reading of the Alien Franchise
12. Remediating Ripley: Negotiating the Patriarchal Gaze in the Alien Franchise Video Games
13. Hissing in the Air Vents: Decoding the Narrative-Verse of Alien: Isolation (2014)

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