Film Criticism on Alien and Its Sequels
Articles on Alien |
Articles on the Alien Series |
Smart Things Students Said about Alien |
Websites on the Alien Series
Film Criticism on Alien and Its Sequels
Articles on Alien |
Articles on the Alien Series |
Smart Things Students Said about Alien |
Websites on the Alien Series
Articles on Alien
Scobie, Stephen . "What's the Story, Mother?: The Mourning of the Alien." Science Fiction Studies, 1993 Mar, 20:1 (59), 80 93.
Matheson, T. J. "Triumphant Technology and Minimal Man: The Technological Society, Science Fiction Films, and Ridley Scott's Alien." Extrapolation, 1992 Fall, 33:3, 215- 29.
Colwell, C. Carter . "Primitivism in the Movies of Ridley Scott: Alien and Blade Runner." 124 31 IN Kerman Judith B. (ed.). Retrofitting Blade Runner. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1991.
Greenberg, Harvey R. "Reimagining the Gargoyle: Psychoanalytic Notes on Alien. In Penley et al, Close Encounters (1991):. 83 -106
Cobb, John L. "Alien as an Abortion Parable." Literature/Film Quarterly 18.3 (1990): 198 -202.
Newton, Judith. "Feminism and Anxiety in Alien." In Kuhn, Alien Zone (1990): 82 -90.
Creed, Barbara ""Alien and the Monstrous Feminine." In Kuhn, Alien Zone (1990): 128 -144.
Bundtzen, Lynda K. "Monstrous Mother: Medusa, Grendel, and now Alien." Film Quarterly 40.3 (1987): 11 -17.
Bell Metereau, Rebecca. "Woman: The Other Alien in Alien." 9 -24 IN Weedman Jane B. (ed.). Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock: Texas Tech P, 1985.
Peary, Danny. "Playing Ripley in Alien: An Interview with Sigourney Weaver." In Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Danny Peary. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Co., 1984. 154- 66.
Peary, Danny. "Directing Alien and Blade Runner: An Interview with Ridley Scott." In Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Danny Peary. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Co., 1984. 293 -302.
Davis Genelli, Tom and Lyn ""Alien: A Myth of Survival." Film/Psychology Review 4, No. 2 (Summer Fall 1980): 235 -240.
Kavanagh, James H. "Feminism, Humanism, and Science in Alien. 1980; rpt. in Kuhn, Alien Zone (1990): 73 -81.
Elkins, Charles, ed. Symposium on Alien. Science Fiction Studies 7.3 (1980): 278- 304.
Articles on the Alien Series
Vaughn, Thomas. Voices of Sexual Distortion: Rape, Birth, and Self Annihilation Metaphors in the Aliens Trilogy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 81.4 (1995): 423- 35.
Chien, Joseph. Containing Horror: The Alien Trilogy and the Abject." Focus Magazine 14 (1994): 7- 17.
Abbott, Joe. They Came from Beyond the Center: Ideology and Political Textuality in the Radical Science Fiction Films of James Cameron." Literature Film Quarterly 22:1 (1994,) 21- 27.
Miles, Geoff and Carol Moore. Explorations, Prosthetics and Sacrifice: Phantasies of theMaternal Body in the Alien Trilogy." CineAction! 30 (1992): 54- 62.
Slattery, Dennis Patrick. Demeter Persephone and the Alien(s) Cultural Body." New Orleans Review 19.1 (1992): 30 35,
Berenstein, Rhona. Mommie Dearest: Aliens, Rosemary's Baby and Mothering." Journal of Popular Culture 24.2 (1990): 55- 74.
Goodall, Jane R. "Aliens". Southern Review 23.1 (1990): 73-82.
Rushing: Janice Hocker. Evolution of the New Frontier' in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal Co-Optation of the Feminine Archetype." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1989): 1- 24
Gabbard, Krin. "Aliens and the New Family Romance." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 8.1 (1988): 29- 42.
Greenberg, Harvey. "Fembo: Aliens' Intentions." Journal of Popular Film and Television." 15.4 (Winter 1988): 165- 71.
Naureckas, Jim. "Aliens: Mother and the Teeming Hordes." Jump Cut 32 (1987): 1- 4.
Websites on the Alien SeriesXenomorph: The Aliens Movie Site
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