Aliens (1986)
Aliens (1986)
This chapter studies James Cameron's Aliens (1986). Aliens pits a squad of human Marines against a hive of aliens located in a space colony. The film functions powerfully as a fairy tale about children and the protective role of the ‘mother’ as a primal figure. With Aliens, Cameron offers the clearest example of his career in terms of how the fairy tale and the horror genre can be interconnected. The film elaborates Cameron's commitment to rendering mythic tropes in such a way that they resonate with the creeping awareness that peoples' bodies can become sites for technological fusion and transformation. It also indicates Cameron's vital role in the evolution of a ‘new wave’ in American fantasy and science fiction filmmaking within the major studio production context.
Keywords: James Cameron, Aliens, fairy tale, mother figure, horror, mythic tropes, fantasy, science fiction
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