Alien by Roger Luckhurst
Alien, that legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, was born out of a terrible monster movie script called Star Beast. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, this book explores how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings.-
Seven
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The Shawshank Redemption
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A Hard Day's Night
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Blade Runner
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Spirited Away
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Jaws
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The "Wizard of Oz"
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"Citizen Kane"
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Pulp Fiction
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Pan's Labyrinth
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Double Indemnity
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The Birds
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The "Terminator"
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The Big Sleep
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The Shining
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Quatermass and the Pit
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The Exorcist
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Vertigo
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The 'Before' Trilogy
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The Big Lebowski
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Meet Me in St. Louis
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Lawrence of Arabia
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"Taxi Driver"
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"Brief Encounter"
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The Usual Suspects
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Eyes Wide Shut
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I Know Where I'm Going!
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The Thing
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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Rosemary's Baby
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The Night of the Hunter
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"Singin' in the Rain"
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Blue Velvet
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The Searchers
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Once Upon a Time in America
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The Third Man
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Chinatown
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Grave of the Fireflies
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Stagecoach
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M
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Groundhog Day
Luckhurst offers many insights into characters and subtext that would presumably escape the average viewer of Ridley Scott's hugely successful SF/horror hybridBut he also covers the gestation of the production, which is a fascinating story in itself, before dissecting the film to provide a pretty comprehensive and incisive analysis. -- Good Book Guide
ROGER LUCKHURST is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His many books include The Trauma Question (2008), The Mummy's Curse (2012) and, in the BFI Film Classics series, The Shining (2013).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844577880 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844577880 |
| Title | Alien |
| Author | Roger Luckhurst |
| Series | Bfi Film Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2014-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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