‘Alien’ Retrospective: Imperialism, Giger’s Phallic Imagery, and the Corruption of Nostromo

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The Nostromo sails on an empty black sea across a giant, star-sprinkled canvas, venturing away from the unknown, back to Earth; quiet, weightless. Dallas, Ripley, Lambert, Brett, Ash, Kane, and Parker make up the crew of this commercial towing vehicle, carrying twenty million tons of mineral ore back to the Earth’s crust. The seven crew […]