Mars Attacks!.

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Mars attacks! : screenplay / by Gems, Jonathan, 1952-

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Music from the films of Tim Burton.

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Music from the films of Tim Burton

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The film music of Danny Elfman by Elfman, Danny

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The film music of Danny Elfman. by Elfman, Danny

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Off the planet : music, sound and science fiction cinema

Table of Contents: “…Inter-planetary soundclash : music, technology and territorialisation in Mars attacks! /…”


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Gothic fantasy : the films of Tim Burton by Page, Edwin

Table of Contents: “…Tim Burton : the man behind the movies -- A life in film -- Beetlejuice -- Batman -- Edward Scissorhands -- Batman returns -- The nightmare before Christmas -- Ed Wood -- Mars attacks! -- Sleepy Hollow -- Planet of the apes -- Big fish -- Charlie and the chocolate factory -- Corpse bride -- The fairy tale goes on...…”


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Love & hydrogen : new and selected stories by Shepard, Jim

Table of Contents: “…The gun lobby -- Love and hydrogen -- Mars attacks -- Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness -- The creature from the Black Lagoon -- Runway -- Ajax is all about attack -- Eustace -- The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich -- Reach for the sky -- Alicia and Emmett with the 17th Lancers at Balaclava -- The mortality of parents -- Astounding stories -- Spending the night with the poor -- Descent into perpetual night -- John Ashcroft: More important things than me -- Messiah -- Piano starts here -- Batting against Castro -- Krakatau -- Won't get fooled again -- Climb aboard the mighty flea.…”


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Dying for a laugh : disaster movies and the camp imagination by Feil, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Recipes for disaster: the rise and fall of the 1970s disaster movie -- From disaster parody to parodic disaster: Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the development of high concept camp -- Queering the wreckage and straightening up: camp, stereotyping and the late 1990s disaster cycle -- The movie is awful: Mars attacks! and the limits of high concept camp -- From camp to kitsch: 9/11, taste, and the imagination of disaster -- Campy disaster, comic book movies, and The day after tomorrow -- Camp theory.…”


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The invisible hand in popular culture : liberty versus authority in American film and TV by Cantor, Paul A. (Paul Arthur), 1945-2022

Table of Contents: “…The Western and Western drama: John Ford's The searchers and The oresteia -- The original frontier: Gene Roddenberry's apprenticeship for Star trek in Have gun, will travel -- Order out of the mud: Deadwood and the state of nature -- Maverick creators and Maverick heroes. Mars attacks! Tim Burton and the ideology of The flying saucer movie -- Flying solo: The aviator and entrepreneurial vision -- Cartman shrugged: the invisible gnomes and the invisible hand in South park -- Edgar G. …”


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Alien identities : exploring differences in film and fiction

Table of Contents: “…Invasion in The War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks! / Liz Hedgecock -- Vagabond Desire: Aliens, Alienation and Human Regeneration in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic and Andrey Tarkovsky's Stalker / John Moore -- Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan's to Cronenberg's The Fly / Karin Littau -- The Alien Series and Generic Hybridity / Martin Flanagan -- Aliens, (M)others, Cyborgs: The Emerging Ideology of Hybridity / Patricia Linton.…”


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The emperors of chocolate : inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars by Brenner, Joël Glenn

Table of Contents: “…. -- Bittersweet -- M and M -- Sweet Home, Chicago -- Breaking the Mold -- The Caretakers -- Milton's Boy -- The Great American Chocolate Bar -- Hot Cocoa -- Mars Attacks -- A Legacy Lost -- Nice People Don't Eat Chocolate -- A Chocolate-Covered World -- Raising the Bar -- Corporate Candy.…”


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The works of Tim Burton : margins to mainstream

Table of Contents: “…Telotte -- How to see things differently: Tim Burton's reimaginings / Aaron Taylor -- "He wants to be just like Vincent Price": influence and intertext in the gothic films of Tim Burton / Stephen Carver -- Tim Burton's trash cinema roots: Ed Wood and Mars attacks! / Rob Latham -- A monstrous childhood: Edward Gorey's influence on Tim Burton's The melancholy death of Oyster Boy / Eden Lee Lackner -- It came from Burbank: exhibiting the art of Tim Burton / Cheryl Hicks -- "Tim is very personal": sketching a portrait of Tim Burton's auteurist fandom and its origins / Matt Hills -- Tim Burton's popularization of perversity: Edward Scissorhands, Batman returns, Sleepy Hollow, and Corpse bride / Carol Siegel -- "This is my art, and it is dangerous!"…”


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Waging The war of the worlds : a history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic, including the original script by Gosling, John, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…God of war : a brief history of Mars in the mind of man -- Mars attacks : H.G. Wells declares war -- Orson Welles : larger than life -- Preparing to end the world : the making of the broadcast -- War : 8 p.m., October 30, 1938 -- "It's just a radio show" : dispatches from the front lines -- The fog of war : what really happened? …”


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A critical companion to Tim Burton

Table of Contents: “…8 Reading Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with Paul Tillich9 Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Fairy Tale in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride; 10 Mars Attacks! as Fractured Fairy Tale under Tolkien's Principles of Recovery, Escape, and Consolation; 11 The Heroic Journey of Ed Wood; 12 The Paranormal Hero as a Boundary-Crosser; 13 Miss Peregrine's: New Home for a Peculiar Problem; Section III: Identity and the World; 14 A Colonial Tapestry: Race and Ideology in Pee-wee's Big Adventure; 15 Willy Wonka as a Contemporary Dandy…”
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