Excavating Indiana Jones and Keep Watching The Skies!

The Indiana Jones movie franchise is on the top of my list for all-time favorite movies.

Who can forget the boulder scene in the first film, the ripping out the heart in the second film, the melting faces in the third and the death by ants scene in the fourth film?

It’s interesting that a movie franchise that harkens back to the ‘B’ movie serials would be so popular with modern audiences.

In Excavating Indiana Jones Essays On The Films and Franchise, edited by Randy Laist and published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, all these things and more about the various films are examined.

Various authors delve into the roots of the film franchise, its longevity and popularity and its expanding role in books, video games and the like.

Discover how the films incorporate history, introduce exotic locales and cultures and subtly insert political points of view.

Travel back to the days of adventure, excitement, edge of your seat suspense, where the line between good and evil was clearly defined and strong central characters carried films.

Put on your fedora, break out your whip, don your leather fighter jacket, put on your scruffy cloths and get ready for some rip-roaring action!

Having been raised in the 1950s the threat of nuclear annihilation was very real.

Movies played up the paranoia with some truly frightening movies about alien invaders, giant monsters, gargantuan bugs, bug-eyed creatures, mutants, supernatural threats and more.

No matter how cheesy they are I love them all!

Keep Watching The Skies, a 2-volume set of books written by Bill Warren and published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, examines all of them in this 21st Century Edition.

Accompanying the black and white and color photos are extensive examinations of every film produced during Hollywood’s ‘Cold War’ era.

Learn all about how the films were made, who starred in them, what studio released and distributed them, funny and unknown anecdotes, music and credits.

This book set is massive and contains so much fun and fascinating information you’ll spend hours (days) pouring over each film entry and come away with a new appreciation of the mid-20th Century paranoia filmography.

What an delightful read that is made even more enjoyable by the informative and entertaining way it is presented.

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