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Games auteur Hideo Kojima talks Hollywood collaboration in Death Stranding panel
An excerpt from the book Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact From Fiction In Hollywood's UFO Movies about Invasion of the Body Snatchers -
In 1956 came Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which alien invaders replace humans with 'pod people' – duplicates superficially identical to the original victim, but which are utterly devoid of individuality or emotion. Film critics have sense interpreted Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as well as many other sci-fi movies of the Cold War era, as political allegory. Discussing the idea of allegory in alien invasion movies of the 1950s, film writer Peter Biskind notes that " critics of popular culture have always been quick to point out that the Other is always other than itself, which is to say, the pods and blobs are "symbols" standing for something else." Because the Other in films of this period frequently was linked to radiation (as in Them! (1954)), or to mind control and loss of identity (as in Invaders from Mars (1953)), it has been customary in film studies to equate aliens with the dangers associated with atomic power or communism. But Biskind argues that critics often give Cold War sci-fi movies too much credit and that many of them were not political allegories at all, but literal reflections of cultural preoccupations. For the preferred reading of many of these films, says Biskind, " all we have to do is look at what's before our very eyes".
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An excerpt from the book Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact From Fiction In Hollywood's UFO Movies about Invasion of the Body Snatchers -
In 1956 came Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which alien invaders replace humans with 'pod people' – duplicates superficially identical to the original victim, but which are utterly devoid of individuality or emotion. Film critics have sense interpreted Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as well as many other sci-fi movies of the Cold War era, as political allegory. Discussing the idea of allegory in alien invasion movies of the 1950s, film writer Peter Biskind notes that " critics of popular culture have always been quick to point out that the Other is always other than itself, which is to say, the pods and blobs are "symbols" standing for something else." Because the Other in films of this period frequently was linked to radiation (as in Them! (1954)), or to mind control and loss of identity (as in Invaders from Mars (1953)), it has been customary in film studies to equate aliens with the dangers associated with atomic power or communism. But Biskind argues that critics often give Cold War sci-fi movies too much credit and that many of them were not political allegories at all, but literal reflections of cultural preoccupations. For the preferred reading of many of these films, says Biskind, " all we have to do is look at what's before our very eyes".
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