How is the unheimlich represented in Alien (1979)?

This essay discusses how Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory of The Uncanny (Freud, 2003), also known as Unheimlich is represented in Ridley Scott’s film Alien (1979), in relation to the film’s genre: Horror.

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