Independence Day vs. War of the Worlds

A comparison of alien invasion movies from two very different cultures. Get started with a 30-day Audible trial when you go to https://www.audible.com/lindsayellis or text lindsayellis to 500500 and LISTEN for a change. This is an idea I stole from Dan Olson of Folding Ideas - in effect, this is a remake of a video I did five years ago that hasn’t been online for a while, like a second edition, an updated version of a textbook. There was a lot there that I felt was worthy of revisiting, and more still that I wanted to add. Some of the bones are still there, but this version is much more streamlined and heavier researched, and the irrelevant excess has been cut. Bill Pullman: https://www.patreon.com/lindsayellis Randy Quaid: https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis Citations: Breznican, Anthony. “Spielberg’s family values.” USA TODAY. Gannett Co., 23 June 2005, https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-06-23-spielberg_x.htm Eller, Claudia. “Hollywood Executives Rethink What Is Off Limits.” Los Angeles Times. 14 September 2001, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/14/news/mn-45730 Gailor, Denis. “‘Wells's War of the Worlds’, the 'Invasion Story' and Victorian Moralism.” Critical Survey, vol. 8, no. 3, 1996, pp. 270–276. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41556021. Lavik, Erland. “The Video Essay: The Future of Academic Film and Television Criticism?” Frames Cinema Journal. University of St Andrews, 02 July 2012, http://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-video-essay-the-future/ Pintér, Károly. “The Analogical Alien: Constructing and Construing Extraterrestrial Invasion in Wells's ‘The War of the Worlds.’” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), vol. 18, no. 1/2, 2012, pp. 133–149. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43488465. “‘War of the Worlds’ draws on 9/11 anxieties.” Today, NBC Universal, 09 Aug 2010,   https://www.today.com/popculture/war-worlds-draws-9-11-anxieties-wbna8381687 Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds. New York: Harper & brothers. 1989. Google Books. Web. 20 January 2019.