You Can't (Re)make a Mother: Anxiety and the Cultural Shifts in Maternity in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978) and Invaders from Mars (1953 and 1986)
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In some science-fiction texts, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for example, a desire to generate life drives the narrative; thus, these texts are often read as a metaphor for the male's desire to appropriate the female's ability to create life (this anxiety seems greatest in the contemporary debate over cloning, which could remove the male's role entirely). Other texts, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978) and Invaders from Mars (1953 and 1986), focus instead on the role of the mother as an increasingly inhuman (cold, distant) figure. Although the original versions of both films are read as lightly veiled allegories about the Cold War, one cannot separate the more immediate threat to domestic tranquility expressed in both films and their remakes: the loss of the role of Mother. When viewed in context, all four films become scathing attacks on the shifting role of women in the United States, specifically in terms of reproduction, education, and employment.
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In some science-fiction texts, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for example, a desire to generate life drives the narrative; thus, these texts are often read as a metaphor for the male's desire to appropriate the female's ability to create life (this anxiety seems greatest in the contemporary debate over cloning, which could remove the male's role entirely). Other texts, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978) and Invaders from Mars (1953 and 1986), focus instead on the role of the mother as an increasingly inhuman (cold, distant) figure. Although the original versions of both films are read as lightly veiled allegories about the Cold War, one cannot separate the more immediate threat to domestic tranquility expressed in both films and their remakes: the loss of the role of Mother. When viewed in context, all four films become scathing attacks on the shifting role of women in the United States, specifically in terms of reproduction, education, and employment.
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