Tag Archives: aliens

Sleeping with the Aliens: Weird Encounters of the Fourth Kind

November 8th, 2009 | Posted in alien abduction, aliens, Old Hag, Paul Meehan, science fiction, sleep paralysis, UFOs

TheoFantastique is pleased to present its first guest posting, a review of The Fourth Kind by Paul Meehan, author of several books including Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir (McFarland, 2008), Cinema of the Psychic Realm: A Critical Survey (McFarland, 2009), and Saucer Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow […]

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H. R. Giger as Digital Magician of Dark Archetypes

October 24th, 2009 | Posted in aliens, archetypes, art, H. R. Giger, Surrealism

You never know where the fantastic in pop culture will surface, and where religion and the fantastic will intersect. I have been doing some research lately for a couple of essays on Neopaganism I need to write for a book on world religions. Today I looked at Magic and Witchcraft by Nevil Drury (Thomas & […]

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Paul Meehan – SAUCER MOVIES: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema

May 19th, 2009 | Posted in aliens, Paul Meehan, science fiction, UFOs

For decades popular culture has experienced and enjoyed two related phenomena, that of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), along with alleged alien visitation, as well science fiction films that feature flying saucers and their occupants. Indeed, as author Paul Meehan has noted, “[s]aucer movies are a distinct subgenre of science fiction film, and perhaps should constitute a […]

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Aliens R Us: Science Fiction and the Other

November 14th, 2008 | Posted in aliens, Othering, science fiction

Sean Cubitt is Director of the Media and Communications Program at The University of Melbourne. With Zaiudin Sardar he is the co-editor of Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Pluto Press, 2002). As the subtitle indicates, this volume looks at various expressions of science fiction and how the genre has served as a […]

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Cinematic Extraterrestrials: Call for Papers

August 11th, 2008 | Posted in archetypes, call for papers, pop culture, science fiction

       2008 Film & History Conference “Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond,” October 30-November 2, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory Second-Round Deadline: September 1, 2008 Area: Cinematic Extraterrestrials As film made its way into 20th-century popular culture, depictions of extraterrestrial aliens became more prolific and specialized, eventually becoming fixed in the imagination as cultural archetypes, […]

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Angels, Aliens, and the Supernatural Other

July 24th, 2007 | Posted in alien Messiah, aliens, angels, demonology

A short while ago I became aware of the Popular Culture Association and discovered they have an extensive horror panel at their annual convention which involves a number of presenters and papers. I contacted the gentleman who coordinates this track and he kindly provided me with a list of the panels from 2003 through 2006. […]

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Science Fiction and Alien Messiahs

March 5th, 2007 | Posted in alien Messiah, aliens, The Day the Earth Stood Still

One of the areas that has fascinated me in the study of the intersection between religion and science fiction is the impact of the Christian story upon the genre, particular the archetype of the alien Messiah. In our portrayal of extraterrestrials we tend to oscillate between two extremes, that of the evil alien intent on […]

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