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Aliens In America : Conspiracy Cultures From Outerspace To Cyberspace

Attribution
Jodi Dean
Publication Details
Book, Cornell University Press, 1998
Availability
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(LOWER LEVEL) BF2050 .D43 1998 AVAILABLE
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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. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Dean, Jodi, 1962-
Subject
- Human-alien encounters — Social aspects — United States
- Alien abduction — Social aspects — United States
Places in this work
- United States.
Notes
- 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
ISBN
- 0801484685
- 0801434637
LCCN
- 97044509
Open Library ID
- /b/OL696986M