The day the earth stood still : original motion picture score / Bernard Herrmann. by Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975

“…Day the earth stood still (Motion picture : 1951)…”

The day the earth stood still / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; produced by Julian Blaustein ; directed by Robert Wise ; screenplay by Edmund H. North.

Table of Contents: “…Commentary by director Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer ; All-new commentary by film and music historians John Morgan, Steven Smith, William Stromberg and Nick Redman ; Isolated score track ; All-new featurettes: "The mysterious, melodious Theremin;" "Main title live performence" by Peter Pringle; "The making of The Day the Earth Stood Still;" "Farewell to the master:" A reading by Jamieson K. …”

The Day the earth stood still / Twentieth Century-Fox ; screenplay by Edmund H. North ; produced by Julian Blaustein ; directed by Robert Wise.

The day the Earth stood still : screenplay / by Edmund H. North. by North, Edmund H., 1911-1990

“…Day the earth stood still (Motion picture : 1951)…”

Alternate Americas : science fiction film and American culture / M. Keith Booker. by Booker, M. Keith

Table of Contents: “…The day the earth stood still --…”

Disaster deferred : how new science is changing our view of earthquake hazards in the Midwest / Seth Stein. by Stein, Seth

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2. The Day the Earth Stood Still --…”
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Abject terrors : surveying the modern and postmodern horror film / Tony Magistrale. by Magistrale, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Terrors from beyond : The day the earth stood still, Them!, the Alien movies --…”

Off the planet : music, sound and science fiction cinema / edited by Philip Hayward.

Table of Contents: “…Hooked on aetherophonics : The day the earth stood still /…”

Invasions USA : the essential science fiction films of the 1950s / Michael Bliss. by Bliss, Michael, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sleepwalking: Invaders from mars -- His little town: Invasion of the body snatchers -- Ecce humanitas: The day the earth stood still -- We don't like your kind here: It came from outer space -- Welcome to my nightmare: I married a monster from outer space -- Two aliens from inner space: Kronos and The thing from another world -- Invading from space and slouching into it: When worlds collide, The war of the worlds, Conquest of space -- Spiritual enhancement: the incredible shrinking man.…”
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Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography. by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.…”
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Paranoia, the bomb, and 1950s science fiction films / Cyndy Hendershot. by Hendershot, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Paranoia and the delusion of the total system -- The atomic scientist, science fiction films, and paranoia: The day the Earth stood still, This island Earth, and Killers from space -- The invaded body: paranoia and radiation anxiety in Invaders from Mars, It came from outer space, and Invasion of the body-snatchers -- Feminine paranoia and secrecy: I married a monster from outer space and Attack of the 50 ft. woman -- Photographs -- Darwin and the atom: evolution/devolution fantasies in The beast from 20,000 fathoms, Them! …”

The philosophy of science fiction film / edited by Steven M. Sanders.

Table of Contents: “…McMahon -- Extraterrestrial visitation, time travel, and artificial intelligence -- Technology and ethics in The day the earth stood still / Aeon J. Skoble -- Some paradoxes of time travel in The terminator and 12 monkeys / William J. …”

The rough guide to sci-fi movies.

Table of Contents: “…; Akira; Alien; Aliens; Alphaville; Back to the future; Blade runner; Brazil; Bride of Frankenstein; Brother from another planet; Close encounters of the third kind; Contact; The damned; The day the Earth stood still; Delicatessen; Destination moon; Escape from New York; E.T. : the extraterrestrial; Flash Gordon: space soldiers (serial); The fly; Forbidden planet; Ghost in the shell; Gojira; The incredibles; Invasion of the body snatchers; Jurassic park; Mad Max 2; The matrix; Metropolis; On the beach; Planet of the apes; Robocop; Sleeper; Solaris; Star Trek II : the wrath of Khan; Star wars: a new hope; Star wars : the empire strikes back; The Stepford wives; Superman; Terminator 2 : judgement day; The thing from another world; Things to come; Tron; 12 monkeys; 28 days later; 20,000 leagues under the sea; 2001: a space odyssey; La voyage dans la lune; War of the worlds -- The icons : faces of sci-fi film -- Crossovers : blurring sci-fi -- The science : theories that fuel sci-fi -- The locations : star tours -- Global : sci-fi film around the world -- Information : the wider picture.…”

Seeing is believing : how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties / Peter Biskind. by Biskind, Peter

Table of Contents: “…and The thing -- The mind managers: invasion of the body snatchers -- Friends in high places: the day the earth stood still and it came from outer space -- The enemy within -- Friendly persuasion -- Public enemies: on the waterfront, underworld USA, The big heat, and force of evil -- WIld in the streets: rebel without a cause, blackboard jungle, I was a teenage werewold, and the space children -- Cochise, si! …”

Robert Wise / 3DD Entertainment.

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Brave new worlds : science fiction phenomenon / NBD Television Ltd.

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Wagner & cinema / edited by Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman ; foreword by Tony Palmer ; interview with Bill Viola.

Table of Contents: “…Wagnerian resonance in film scoring ; The resonances of Wagnerian opera and nineteenth-century melodrama in the film scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer ; Wagner's influence on gender roles in early Hollywood film / Eva Rieger ; The penumbra of Wagner's Ombra in two science fiction films from 1951: The thing from another world and The day the earth stood still / William H. Rosar -- Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood. …”

Science/Fiction of Sex : Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex. by Potts, Annie

Table of Contents: “…The science (fiction) of sex: Mars and Venus in the bedroomThe construction of pleasure: male (s)expertise, female surrender -- Afterplay: Gray strikes out -- Part Two: The Vocabularies of Heterosex -- 3 The day the earth stood still -- Deconstructing orgasm -- Textual analysis of orgasm -- (In)conclusion: disrupting the phallic orgasm -- 4 The man with two brains -- The infusion of body and culture with/in the sexual self -- The exteriorization of masculine heterosexual experience -- Measuring up: firmer, faster, bigger is better -- On-going speculations…”
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Around the world : the atlas for today / [edited by Andrew Losowsky, Sven Ehmann, and Robert Klanten ; preface, epilog, and chapter introductions by Andrew Losowsky ; texts by Ben Knight ; chapter illustrations by Dermot Flynn].

Table of Contents: “…The place we call home : Big bang ; The universe ; Planet earth ; Climate ; Seasons ; Arctic ice ; Great migrations ; Continents ; The end -- Living together : Greetings ; Wedding traditions ; Happiness ; Global population ; Migration ; Megacities ; Skyscrapers ; Underworld ; Metro systems ; Empires ; The American way ; The White House ; The Kanzleramt ; The Left Wing ; Nuclear Weapons ; Casualties ; Religion ; Jerusalem ; Picking the Pope ; The Hajj ; Holidays ; Family planning ; It's a woman's world -- The days the earth stood still : Titanic ; Pearl Harbor ; D-Day ; Berlin Airlift ; Mount Everest ; Cuban Missile Crisis ; JFK ; Space exploration ; Space flight ; 9/11 ; Fukushima ; Killing Osama bin Laden -- The good life : Family time ; Family spending ; Breakfast ; Food ; Tuna ; Fruit ; Organic farming ; Chocolate ; Beer ; Wine ; Liquids ; Travel ; Flight paths ; Highways ; Christmas ; Fashion ; Pets ; Music ; TV shows ; Twentieth century painters ; Twenty-first century art sales ; Olympia ; Football -- Fear and loathing : Tarantino ; Guns ; Phobias ; Plane crashes ; Pandemics ; Smoking ; Drugs ; New Year's resolutions -- Money makes the world go round : Pyramid of wealth ; B.R.I.C. states ; Development aid ; Market bubbles ; Globalization ; Drug trafficking ; Food ; Brands ; Nuclear power ; Solar power ; Energy market ; Oil ; Energy flow -- The world is not enough : Waste of energy ; Resources ; Carbon emissions ; Natural disasters ; Plastic ; Heat ; Animal biotapes ; Water -- Our greatest ideas : Inventions ; Nobel Prize ; Light ; Submarine cables ; Internet ; Digital storage ; CERN -- Epilogue.…”

Why we fought : America's wars in film and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Invaders of the cold war: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the Earth stood still / Susan A. George -- Using popular culture to study the Vietnam war: perils and possibilities / Peter C. …”