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Book/Printed Material Science fiction cinema and 1950s Britain : recontextualising cultural anxiety

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Title

  • Science fiction cinema and 1950s Britain : recontextualising cultural anxiety

Names

  • Jones, Matthew, 1984- author.

Created / Published

  • New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Incorporated, 2017.

Contents

  • Introduction: Teacups and flying saucers -- Section A: Communist infiltration and indoctrination -- Soviet brainwashing, British defectors and the corruptive elsewhere -- "He can be a communist here if he wants to": living with the monster -- Section B: Nuclear technology -- The beast in the atom: Britain's nuclear nightmares -- Atomic albion: Britain's nuclear dreams -- Section C: Race and immigration -- It came from the colonies!: mass immigration and the invasion narratives -- Loving the alien: after the Notting Hill race riots -- Section D: Britain at home and abroad -- Still overpaid, still oversexed and still over here: the American invasion of Europe -- Science fiction Britain: the nation of the future -- Conclusion.

Headings

  • -  Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century
  • -  Science fiction films--Great Britain--History and criticism

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (pages cm)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN1995.9.S26

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715477

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Chicago citation style:

Jones, Matthew, Author. Science fiction cinema and s Britain: recontextualising cultural anxiety. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Incorporated, 2017. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715477/.

APA citation style:

Jones, M. (2017) Science fiction cinema and s Britain: recontextualising cultural anxiety. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Incorporated. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715477/.

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Jones, Matthew, Author. Science fiction cinema and s Britain: recontextualising cultural anxiety. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Incorporated, 2017. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020715477/>.