The Making of Alien

The Making of Alien
Author: J. W. Rinzler
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1789090555

A comprehensive and definitive volume telling the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new interviews with Ridley Scott and other production crew, and including many rarely-seen photos and illustrations from the Fox archives. In 1979 a movie legend was born, as Twentieth Century-Fox and director Ridley Scott unleashed Alien - and gave audiences around the world the scare of their lives. To celebrate the movie's fortieth anniversary, author J.W. Rinzler (The Making of Star Wars) tells the whole fascinating story of how Alien evolved from a simple idea in the mind of writer Dan O'Bannon into one of the most memorable sci-fi horror thrillers of all time. With brand new interviews with Ridley Scott and other key members of the original production crew, and featuring many never-before-seen photographs and artworks from the archives, The Making of Alien is the definitive work on this masterpiece of popular cinema.

The Art and Making of Alien: Covenant

The Art and Making of Alien: Covenant
Author: Simon Ward
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785653814

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in the groundbreaking Alien franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but it is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. Alien: Covenant – The Art of the Film reveals how the visual style of the film evolved, with breathtaking concept art accompanied by insight and interviews with key cast and crew. This official companion book explores all the major environments, creatures and technology that feature in this exciting new movie. It explores the intricate technology of the eponymous colony ship and its auxiliary vehicles, designs of the crew’s uniforms and weaponry, artwork of key locations and breathtaking alien art imagery in amazing detail. Packed with fascinating sketches, blueprints, diagrams, full-color artwork, final film frames and behind-the-scenes shots from the set, Alien: Covenant – The Art of the Film is the ultimate literary companion to this highly anticipated movie event. TM & © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Making of Alien Resurrection

Making of Alien Resurrection
Author: Andrew Murdock
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1997-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061053788

Alien Resurrection marks the fourth installment in the Alien science-fiction film series. The story takes us into deep space where the USS Auriga is the venue for clandestine scientific experiments in the name of medical advancement. The arrival of the Betty, a rock 'n' roll spacecraft with a cargo of live hosts and a volatile crew, plants the seeds for confirmation and conflict. Sigourney Weaver returns as the genetically corrupted Lieutenant Ripley, and is joined by Winona Ryder, as the auton robot Call and an eclectic crew of renegade space pirates in a quest to find meaning in a world that seeks to tamper with the lethal and mysterious alien life form. Director Jean-Pierre Jeuenet, who generated the abstract and visually arresting films Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, takes creative license to establish another uniquely stylized futuristic vision. The Making of Alien Resurrection is a celebration of the creative process involved in the completion of a major feature film. Join the director, cinematographer, designers, editors, visual effects consultants, special effects technicians, artists, sculptors and a myriad of other talented people in a collaborative journey to fabricate an idiosyncratic perception of the future.

Alien Vault

Alien Vault
Author: Ian Nathan
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1781319421

Alien Vault is the ultimate tribute to a film that changed cinema forever.

Alien: Into Charybdis

Alien: Into Charybdis
Author: Alex White
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178909528X

The critically acclaimed author of Alien: The Cold Forge takes readers to a rogue colony where terror lurks in the tunnels of an abandoned Weyland-Yutani complex. “Shy” Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought it was an easy job—set up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as “Charybdis.” There are just two problems: the colony belongs to the Iranian state, so diplomacy is strained at best, and the complex is located above a series of hidden caves. Charybdis has a darker history than any could imagine, and its depths harbor deadly secrets. Until their ship can be refueled, the McAllen team is trapped there. The deeper they dig, the more Shy is convinced there's no one they can believe. When a bizarre ship lands on a nearby island, one of the workers is attacked by a taloned creature, and trust evaporates between the Iranians and Americans. The McAllen integrations crew are imprisoned, accused as spies, but manage to send out a distress signal... to the Colonial Marines.

Alien Woman

Alien Woman
Author: Ximena Gallardo C.
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780826415707

This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies.

The Book of Alien

The Book of Alien
Author: Paul Scanlon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1979
Genre: Alien (Motion picture)
ISBN: 9780930368432

The Chinese Must Go

The Chinese Must Go
Author: Beth Lew-Williams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674976010

Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American "alien" in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."

Giger's Alien

Giger's Alien
Author: Hansruedi Giger
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1989
Genre: Alien (Motion picture)
ISBN: 9781852862190

The classic status of Alien, the movie, is in large part due to Academy-Award winning artist and designer H.R. Giger. This book provides a complete illustrated record of the months of painstaking work that went into designing the most frightening movie monster of them all.

Alien: The Blueprints

Alien: The Blueprints
Author: Graham Langridge
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785654950

Technical drawings of all the major ships and vehicles from the Alien movies, presented in incredible detail. Includes iconic spacecraft like the Nostromo, the Sulaco and the Covenant. Alien: The Blueprints is a collection of brand new blueprints of all the major vehicles, ships and technology of the Alien movie universe. Artist Graham Langridge delves deep into the concept art, set designs and photography to recreate full and accurate blueprints of the drop ship, the Sulaco, the Nostromo and many more. Covering all the movies including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, this is a must-have for any Alien fan.