Aliens as Immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ Became the Latest Political Sci-Fi Film

Posted February 24, 2017

External Article: The Washington Post

Jay Telotte and Lisa Yaszek, professors in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Commuincation, were quoted in “Aliens as Immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ Became the Latest Political Sci-Fi Film” by The Washington Post.

Excerpt:

Jay Telotte, a Georgia Tech professor who studies science fiction film and TV, says that political metaphors can be found in genre films of all sorts. In Westerns and musicals, he says, “the same thing happens — you find ways of displacing your anxieties and putting them into this other form. It’s not as threatening, and certainly it’s not as polemical.”.

For the full article, read here.