They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : : The History and Politics of Alien Abduction / / Bridget Brown.
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a ne...
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Brown, Bridget, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : The History and Politics of Alien Abduction / Bridget Brown. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Elusive Shreds of Memory -- 2. The Invisible Epidemic -- 3. Good Subjects -- 4. My Body Is Not My Own -- 5. An Ongoing and Systematic Breeding Experiment -- 6. They Have the Secrets -- 7. This Is Worse Than Friggin’ Aliens -- 8. Look and See What You Have Done -- 9. You Have a Sensitivity -- 10. Reality Gets Exploded -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not with establishing whether aliens actually exist, but with understanding what belief in aliens in America may tell us about our changing understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television. Brown contends that the abduction phenomenon is symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel increasingly divested of the ability to know what is real or true about themselves and the world in which they live. The alien abduction phenomenon helps us think about how people who feel left out create their own stories and fashion truths that square with their own experience of the world. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Alien abduction. HISTORY / Social History. bisacsh Better. Know. Ourselves. Than. They. abduction. belief. constituted. discourse. extraterrestrials. film. images. looks. popular. print. provided. television. through. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814799215 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739174 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814739174/original |
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