Alien Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise 9780197556030, 9780197556023, 9780197556054, 9780197556061, 0197556035
The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily
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Table of contents :
Cover
Alien Legacies
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
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)
Index
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