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**This episode was recorded remotely**\n\nGet outta here, Roger Ebert! Alien (1979) is an awesome film! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ridley Scott's sophomore masterpiece in sci-fi and terror! Discussions include but are not limited to: Archaic Mothers, Ripley's feminism, gender, the patriarchy in space, and Jung's theory on the Shadow Self!\n\nThanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com\n\nBuy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com\n\nResources:\n\n"The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative" By Sandra Jackson & Julie Moody-Freeman\n\n"Interstellar Sleep Produces Such Matriarchal Monsters" By Davina Quinlivan\n\n"Alien Thoughts: Mind Reading and Spectatorial Pleasure in Ridley Scott\u2019s Horror Film" by Cecilia Madeline Bolich\nhttps://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4207&context=etd\n\n\u201cWoman: The Other Alien in Alien\u201d by Tom Shone\nhttps://slate.com/culture/2012/06/prometheus-why-are-academics-so-obsessed-with-ridley-scotts-alien-and-its-sequels.html\n\n"The First Action Heroine" by Xan Brooks\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/13/ridley-scott-alien-ripley\n\n"GENDER AND THE HORROR FILM: BIRTH, RAPE AND FEMALE SEXUALITY IN RIDLEY SCOTT\u2019S ALIEN (1979)" by Jake Martyn Bogira\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/316657606_Gender_and_the_Horror_Film_Birth_Rape_and_Female_Sexuality_in_Ridley_Scott's_Alien_1979\n\n'Alien' Is Sci-Fi Horror's Most Feminist Movie Franchise \nhttps://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdn4d/alien-is-sci-fi-horrors-most-feminist-movie-franchise\n\n"Illusionary Strength: An Analysis of Female Empowerment in Science Fiction and Horror Films in Fatal Attraction, Aliens, and The Stepford Wives" by Jennifer Lynn Ruben\n\n\u2018Alien\u2019 Revisited: Nearly Four Decades Later, Ripley Is Still the Boundary-Busting Heroine We Deserve by Kate Erbland\nhttps://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/alien-ripley-heroine-ridley-scott-sigourney-weaver-1201817775/\n\n"Why Alien is one of the most influential movies ever made" by Peter Howell\nhttps://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/09/03/a-parasite-to-remember-why-alien-is-one-of-the-most-influential-movies-ever-made.html\n\n"Reassessing Alien: Sexuality and the Anxieties of Men" By Jason Haggstrom http://reel3.com/reassessing-alien-sexuality-and-the-anxieties-of-men/\n\n(In)alienable Rights: Property, Feminism, and the Female Body from Ann Radcliffe to the Alien Films by Lauren Fitzgerald\nhttps://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/2001-n21-ron433/005961ar/\n\nRipley, Sexism, and Classism in \u2018Aliens\u2019 by Adam Sherman\nhttp://www.btchflcks.com/2016/07/ripley-sexism-and-classism-in-aliens.html#.XGSKRxlKjfY\n\n"Alien" as an Abortion Parable by John L. Cobbs (Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3 (1990), pp. 198-201 (4 pages).\n\nSigourney Weaver on Ellen Ripley (AFI)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zev0m1Gmw0g