Abstract
With the coming of the Trump administration, invasion narratives sometimes show confusion, but gradually seem to develop clarity as the regime shows evidence of instating complex and contradictory geopolitical policies and also invokes attitudes toward race and gender that hail back to the origins of security states and seem even more extreme in some instances than its forbearers. The result is films that show a zeal for experimentation with the genre while taking risks with opposing a political and social milieu which by no means was known for its tolerance of difference.
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Wildermuth, M.E. (2022). Invasion Films After 9/11 in the Trump Regime. In: Alien-Invasion Films. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11795-4_9
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