Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Subtitle: Don Siegel, Director
By: Al LaValley, editor
Series: Rutgers films in print;
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1956)
Other titles: Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1956)
Description: Although Invasion can be interpreted in interesting ways along psychological and feminist lines, its importance as a text has centered primarily on political and sociological readings. In his introduction to this volume, Al LaValley explores the politics of the original author of the magazine serial story on which the film is based. Jack Finney; of the film's producer, Walter Wanger; of its director, Don Siegel; and of its screenwriter, Daniel Mainwaring. And he looks at the ways the studio (Allied Artists) tried to neutralize certain readings by tacking on an explanatory frame story. The commentary section includes readings by Stephen King, Peter Biskind, Nora Sayre, and Peter Bogdanovich. A section of postproduction documents reproduced here (many for the first time) includes many written by Wanger and Siegel. The volume also contains two previously unpublished framing scripts written for Orson Welles. For students and individual enthusiasts, the contextual materials are particularly interesting in showing how crucial the postproduction history of a film can be.
Notes: "Siegel filmography": p. [225]-227.

Bibliography: p. [229]-230.
Table of contents: label: Introduction; title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Politics, Psychology, Sociology by Al LaValley
pagenum: 3; title: Don Siegel: A Biographical Sketch
pagenum: 19; title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Credits and Cast
pagenum: 28; title: The Continuity Script
pagenum: 31; title: Notes on the Continuity Script
pagenum: 111; label: Postproduction File; title: Letter to Walter Wanger - Don Siegel
pagenum: 129; title: Suggestions for Additions to the Film - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 134; title: "The Body Snatchers" — Memorandum - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 135; title: Starring Orson Welles - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 138; title: Memorandum to Myself - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 142; title: Memorandum to Walter Wanger - Don Siegel
pagenum: 143; title: Excerpts from a Speech to the American Booksellers Convention - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 146; label: Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries; label: Interviews; title: Don Siegel on the Pod Society - Stuart M. Kaminsky
pagenum: 153; title: Interview with Don Siegel - Guy Braucourt
pagenum: 158; label: Reviews; title: Letter to Bosley Crowther, Film Critic of the New York Times - Walter Wanger
pagenum: 163; title: Los Angeles Examiner - Sara Hamilton
pagenum: 164; title: Weekly Variety - "Whit"
pagenum: 165; title: The Hollywood Reporter - Jack Moffitt
pagenum: 166; title: Boxoffice
pagenum: 167; title: Daily Film Register [London] - "F.J."
pagenum: 168; label: Commentaries; title: B-Movies - Peter Bogdanovich
pagenum: 173; title: The Genre Director: The Films of Don Siegel - Stuart M. Kaminsky
pagenum: 177; title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Ernesto G. Laura
pagenum: 182; title: Watch the Skies - Nora Sayre
pagenum: 184; title: Pods, Blobs, and Ideology in American Films of the Fifties - Peter Biskind
pagenum: 185; title: Danse Macabre - Stephen King
pagenum: 198; title: Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies - Michael Paul Rogin
pagenum: 201; title: Women and the Inner Game of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Nancy Steffen-Fluhr
pagenum: 206; label: Filmography and Bibliography; title: Siegel Filmography, 1945-1982
pagenum: 225; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 229