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Program::
Air date:
Mon, 11/03/2014 - 12:00am
Movie Moles discuss the 35-year-old movie Alien: class, gender, capitalism, cats
2014 marks the 35th anniversary of the Ridley Scott 1979 film Alien. This October, Portlanders had the opportunity to see Alien on the big screen. Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the film and its continuing appeal. They also touch on Carol Clover's book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film; the 1980 "Symposium on Alien" in Science Fiction Studies, and some other writing about the film; as well as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Prometheus.
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