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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Intertextual references
- academic debates
- quali-quantitative survey
- Ellen Ripley
- Giger's Alien
- Committed viewing
- Masterpiece-choosers
- parental guidance
- media generations
- Fandom
- gifting economies
- family
- spoilers
- lengthy responses
- memory narratives
- first viewings
- visceral
- body genres
- chestburster
- realism
- film
About this book
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the – sometimes very surprising – results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kate Egan is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Trash or Treasure?: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007) and The Evil Dead (2011), and co-editor (with Sarah Thomas) of Cult Film Stardom (2012).
Tom Phillips is a Tutor in Humanities at the University of East Anglia. He is the co-chair of the international Fan Studies Network, and his work has been published in Cultural Trends, Celebrity Studies and Transformative Works and Cultures.
Sarah Ralph is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University. Published in Celebrity Studies, Participations and Critical Studies in Television, her research interests centre on media and cultural consumption, media industries and production, and women and the media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alien Audiences
Book Subtitle: Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie
Authors: Martin Barker, Kate Egan, Tom Phillips, Sarah Ralph
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137532060
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53205-3Published: 16 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53206-0Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 139
Topics: Directing, American Cinema and TV, Film History, Arts, North American Literature, Fiction