Cyndy Hendershot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1035656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyndy Hendershot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyndy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendershot |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSHOT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Trauma to Paranoia
Focusing on the ahistorical tendency in much science fiction, and placing it in the context of the political and scientific commentary on the Atomic Age, this essay explores the way that three science-fiction films of the 1950s resorted to paranoid defense-mechanisms in their attempt to deal with the trauma of nuclear destruction
On-Line Film Journal
The Cold War Horror Film
An eight-year-old girl commits three cold-blooded murders. Through reckless experimentation a scientist fuses his body with a fly's. A young man keeps his mother's dead body in his house. The horror film is a genre*** that operates within a framework of taboo and transgression. Following its Gothic predecessors, it expresses the most serious of transgressions—murder, necrophilia, incest—highlighting the taboo that prohibits such activities. The C…
Anti-Communism and Ambivalence in Red Planet Mars, Invasion USA , and The Beast of Yucca Flats
I focus on representations of the “Communist threat” in three sf B-films—Harry Horner’s Red Planet Mars (1952), Alfred E. Green’s Invasion USA (1952), and Coleman Francis’s The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961). Rather than using metaphors such as alien invaders or giant insects (like so many films of that era), all three directly address Communism, using it as an important element in their plots. Yet while each invokes the threat of a dangerous Soviet…
Chemistry and Science Fiction . Jack H. Stocker
Darwin and the Atom
This essay examines Darwinian implications of the atomic bomb as represented in three classic 1950s sf films. The Darwinian opposition between evolution and devolution finds shape in postwar American society as it structures many of the key issues of the time, including anxiety surrounding atomic power, fear of Soviet communism, and fear of McCarthyism. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Them! focus on the dehumanization brought about by forces wh…
The Atomic Scientist, Science Fiction Films, and Paranoia
Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart
(1995). Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart . Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-20
Vampire and Replicant
This article explores Dracula, Siegel’s Invasion of lhe Body Snatchers, and Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers as texts which complicate stable masculinity by introducing a body in flux. The vampiric body and the replicant body are read as instances of a one-sex body, following Thomas Laqueur’s study of pre-18th-century Western anatomical models. The article argues that the metaphor of the one-sex body resurfaces in these three works, all o…
Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart
(1995). Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart . Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-20
Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart
(1995). Postmodern Allegory and David Lynch's Wild at Heart . Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-20
Vampire and Replicant
This article explores Dracula, Siegel’s Invasion of lhe Body Snatchers, and Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers as texts which complicate stable masculinity by introducing a body in flux. The vampiric body and the replicant body are read as instances of a one-sex body, following Thomas Laqueur’s study of pre-18th-century Western anatomical models. The article argues that the metaphor of the one-sex body resurfaces in these three works, all o…
The Atomic Scientist, Science Fiction Films, and Paranoia
Darwin and the Atom
This essay examines Darwinian implications of the atomic bomb as represented in three classic 1950s sf films. The Darwinian opposition between evolution and devolution finds shape in postwar American society as it structures many of the key issues of the time, including anxiety surrounding atomic power, fear of Soviet communism, and fear of McCarthyism. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Them! focus on the dehumanization brought about by forces wh…
The Cold War Horror Film
An eight-year-old girl commits three cold-blooded murders. Through reckless experimentation a scientist fuses his body with a fly's. A young man keeps his mother's dead body in his house. The horror film is a genre*** that operates within a framework of taboo and transgression. Following its Gothic predecessors, it expresses the most serious of transgressions—murder, necrophilia, incest—highlighting the taboo that prohibits such activities. The C…
Anti-Communism and Ambivalence in Red Planet Mars, Invasion USA , and The Beast of Yucca Flats
I focus on representations of the “Communist threat” in three sf B-films—Harry Horner’s Red Planet Mars (1952), Alfred E. Green’s Invasion USA (1952), and Coleman Francis’s The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961). Rather than using metaphors such as alien invaders or giant insects (like so many films of that era), all three directly address Communism, using it as an important element in their plots. Yet while each invokes the threat of a dangerous Soviet…
Chemistry and Science Fiction . Jack H. Stocker
On-Line Film Journal
From Trauma to Paranoia
Focusing on the ahistorical tendency in much science fiction, and placing it in the context of the political and scientific commentary on the Atomic Age, this essay explores the way that three science-fiction films of the 1950s resorted to paranoid defense-mechanisms in their attempt to deal with the trauma of nuclear destruction
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