The Thing from another world.

The thing from another world (1951) : shooting script / written by Charles Lederer. by Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976

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Projected fears : horror films and American culture / Kendall R. Phillips. by Phillips, Kendall R.

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Monsters from the movies / [by] Thomas G. Aylesworth. by Aylesworth, Thomas G.

Table of Contents: “…Come with me to the theater -- Man-made monsters -- Self-made monsters -- The human fiend -- Back from the dead -- Things from another world -- Epilogue -- Appendix: more about some of the films -- Index.…”

Now a terrifying motion picture! : twenty-five classic works of horror adapted from book to film / James F. Broderick. by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The exorcist -- The fly -- Frankenstein -- Freaks -- From hell -- Ghost story -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Jaws -- The masque of the red death -- The night stalker -- The ninth gate -- Nosferatu -- The phantom of the opera -- Psycho -- Re-animator -- The serpent and the rainbow -- The shining -- Sleepy Hollow -- The thing from another world -- Village of the damned.…”

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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Hostile aliens, Hollywood and today's news : 1950s science fiction films and 9/11 / Melvin E. Matthews. by Matthews, Melvin E.

Table of Contents: “…The Road to September 11; Bibliography; Above: Kenneth Toby, Robert Cornthwaite, John Dierkes, Edmund Breon, James Young in The Thing from Another World. Photo copyrig; President Dwight D. …”
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The rough guide to sci-fi movies.

Table of Contents: “…. : 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.…”

The reporter's notebook / Dennis Bloodworth. by Bloodworth, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…The lead and the cilch©♭; 29. The Thing from another world; 30. Mugshot of a reporter; About the Author.…”
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Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.

Table of Contents: “…Character and supporting actors -- Dogs at war: military dogs in film / Aaron Skabelund -- Loaded dogs: dogs, domesticity, and "the wild" in Australian cinema / Jane O'Sullivan -- Bullies and curs: overlords and underdogs in South African Cinema / Giuliana Lund -- Things from another world: dogs, aliens, and antarctic cinema / Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway -- pt. 3. …”

Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.

Table of Contents: “…Character and supporting actors -- Dogs at war: military dogs in film / Aaron Skabelund -- Loaded dogs: dogs, domesticity, and "the wild" in Australian cinema / Jane O'Sullivan -- Bullies and curs: overlords and underdogs in South African Cinema / Giuliana Lund -- Things from another world: dogs, aliens, and antarctic cinema / Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway -- pt. 3. …”
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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. …”

Horror and the horror film / Bruce F. Kawin. by Kawin, Bruce F., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- Little people: the devil-doll -- Animals: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Birds, and Jurassic Park -- Body parts: The Beast with Five Fingers -- Monsters from outer space: The Thing from Another world and Alien -- Monsters from the lab: "you made us things!" …”

Triumph over Containment : American Film in The 1950s. by Kolker, Robert P.

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The pleasure and pain of cult horror films : an historical survey / Bartłomiej Paszylk. by Paszylk, Bartłomiej, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Cyclops (1940) -- The mad monster (1942) -- I walked with a zombie (1943) -- The body snatcher (1945) -- Dead of night (1945) -- The beast with five fingers (1946) -- The thing from another world (1951) -- House of wax (1953) -- Tarantula (1955) -- The curse of Frankenstein (1957 ) -- The fly (1958) -- I bury the living (1958) -- Plan 9 from outer space (1959) -- A bucket of blood (1959) -- Horrors of the black museum (1959) -- Eyes without a face (Les yeux sans visage, 1959) -- Pt. 3. …”