Discuss the significance of sleep and sleep deprivation in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The Invasion(2007).
What does Loock say these themes and the emphasis on medication symbolize relative to the cultural contexts in which the films were created?
Sources:
Sontag, S., The imagination of disaster, Commentary, October 65, pp. 42-48.
Loock, K. (2012) The return of the pod people: remaking cultural anxieties in invasion of the body snatchers. In Loock, K. & Verevis, C. (Eds), Film remakes, adaptations, and fan productions: remake/r
