Littau extends this process to the ancillary products and narratives of the franchise, such as comic books, novelizations and games (22). This hybridization is not, however, limited to the motion pictures alone. Predator: Requiem (2007) moved the franchise into the realm of the monster mash-up, paving the way for Ridley Scott to return and tie up (or perhaps not) the loose ends via his prequel installments Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017). Predator (2004) and the Brothers Strause’ Aliens vs. For example, where Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is a slow paced exploration of confined survival horror, James Cameron’s Aliens (1987) is fast paced action movie, leaving David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection (1997) to inhabit separate cult spaces, before Paul W. Each new installment can be seen to hybridize with elements of the preceding installments (as well as the Predator franchise) and explore new genre modes, allowing the series to simultaneously inhabit a number of distinct filmic niches (Littau 19-32). For Littau, the morphogenesis of the titular alien’s reproductive cycle is mirrored by the cycle of canonic hybridization within the cinematic franchise. It is the latter of these conceptualizations, Karin Littau’s discussion of morphogenesis, which is of most interest to this paper.
Studies have built a rich tapestry of understanding, exploring the franchise via lenses such as the monstrous mother (Creed Kember Newton) abjection (Kristeva) dreadful architectures (Benson-Allott) infertility (Grech et al.) gender inversions, male-birthing and the feminization of the hero (Greenberg Kavanagh Luckhurst) a-sexuality (Dervin) post-humanism and sexual violence (Hurley) as well as human, technological and environmental hybridity (Littau).
From the moment the first installment burst onto our movie screens in 1979, scholars have attempted to unpack and decode the latent and manifest sociocultural meanings embedded within this seminal series of cinematic horror. The Alien cinematic franchise has been subject to much critical scrutiny within the academy.
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