Aliens in America
Subtitle: conspiracy cultures from outerspace to cyberspace
By: Jodi Dean.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Human-alien encounters -- Social aspects -- United States; Alien abduction -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: In a provocative analysis of public culture and popular concerns, Jodi Dean examines how serious UFO-logists and their pop-culture counterparts tap into fears, phobias, and conspiracy theories with a deep past and a vivid present in American society. Aliens, the author shows, are cultural icons, in which the new conditions of democratic politics at the millennium can be seen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.