Prof. Blair Davis appeared on the premiere episode of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction on AMC, which first airfd Monday April 30th. In the episode he discusses such 1950s Sci-Fi films as War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Bringing up ideas covered in his book The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema, Davis contextualizes how the 1953 War of the Worlds film compares to Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast and compares the differences in how that film approaches the very idea of alien invasion to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Davis will be offering a new course about Science Fiction cinema at DePaul in early 2019.
