Invaders

Japanese: インベーダー物 - いんべーだーもの
Invaders

...The term "science fiction" has been used exclusively to refer to novels since it was coined in 1929 by the magazine Amazing Stories, edited by H. Gernsback. However, it can now be said that "movie science fiction" or "screen science fiction" has finally gained acceptance as opposed to "written science fiction."
[Invaders and Radioactive Monsters]
The two main characteristics of science fiction films in the 1950s were "invader stories" and "radioactive monster stories." According to film historian SC Early, "supernatural films emerged as science fiction films in the 1950s," and "werewolves, mummies, and walking corpses (zombies) became invaders from space, ancient dinosaurs awakened from slumber by the radiation of nuclear explosions, or gigantic creatures." As for "invader stories," the exception at the time was the peace-seeking aliens in the aforementioned "The Day the Earth Stood Still." From then on, until the appearance of "friendly aliens" in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" in 1976 and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in 1977, the science fiction screen was completely colored with what Susan Sontag called "the imagination of tragedy" and "the aesthetics of destruction."

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Invaders" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 〈サイエンス・フィクション〉なることばは,H.ガーンズバックが主宰する《アメージング・ストーリーズ》誌から1929年に生まれて以来,もっぱら小説の呼称として使われてきたわけだが,ここに至って,初めて〈書かれたサイエンス・フィクション〉に対して,〈ムービー・サイエンス・フィクション〉,または〈スクリーン・サイエンス・フィクション〉が市民権を得たといえる。
[インベーダーと放射能怪獣]
 1950年代のSF映画の二大特色は〈インベーダー物〉と〈放射能怪獣物〉で,映画史家S.C.アーリーによれば〈怪奇映画が50年代になってSF映画になって現れた〉ことになり,〈狼男やミイラ男や歩く死骸(ゾンビ)が,宇宙からの侵略者や核爆発の放射能によって眠りからさめた太古の恐竜,あるいは巨大化した生物になった〉のである。〈インベーダー物〉についていえば,当時,前述の《地球の静止する日》のような平和の使者的宇宙人は例外で,以後,76年の《地球に落ちてきた男》,77年の《未知との遭遇》における〈友好的宇宙人〉の登場まで,SFのスクリーンは,スーザン・ソンタグのいう〈惨劇のイマジネーション〉〈破壊の美学〉一色に染め上げられることになる。…

※「インベーダー物」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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