Table of Contents

Foreword
Robert Kolker 1. Introduction
Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame 2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A sense of abjection regarding <"the perfect organism> "
Sara Louise Wheeler 3. Fractal Patterns out of Chaos in Ridley Scott's Alien, Prometheus and Covenant
Carrie Lynn Evans 4. The Progeny of H.R. Giger Christopher L. Robinson 5. The Unescapable Labyrinth: Archetypal Retrogression and Aesthetic Rigidity in Alien3
Kenneth Sloane 6. <"Building Better Worlds> ": The Rise of Alien's Online Marketing Campaigns
Kim Walden 7. <"What The Hell Is That?> ": A Transmedial approach to Taxonomic Ambiguity and Horror Affect in the Alien franchise
Zoé N. Wible 8. From Personal Files to Blueprints: Exploring the Alien Universe through Epistolary Paratexts
Tonguç Ibrahim Sezen 9. <"Must be a chick thing> ": Ripley, the Alien franchise and the Female Gothic Frances A. Kamm 10. Making the Mother: Pro/Creation and Female Agency in the Alien Series
Jonathan A. Rose and Florian Zitzelsberger 11. Melodrama of the Unknown Woman Lost in Space: A Cavellian Reading of the Alien Franchise
Mario Slugan 12. Remediating Ripley: Negotiating the Patriarchal Gaze in the Alien Franchise Video Games
Bronwyn Miller 13. Hissing in the Airvents: Decoding the Narrative-Verse of Alien: Isolation (2014)
Reuben Martens

About the Author

Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film and Lead Director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University. He lectures on British and American popular culture, history film and intellectual culture. He is co-founder of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He is the co-author of Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, and the author of Stanley Kubrick: New York
Jewish Intellectual and The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, among others. Gregory Frame is Research Associate in Film Studies at Bangor University. His main area of interest is the politics of popular film and television, and he has published widely in these areas in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. He is the author of The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation.