They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : the History and Politics of Alien Abduction.

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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Main Author: Brown, Bridget
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Published: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Elusive Shreds of Memory: The Trauma and Recovery of Alien Abduction; 2 The Invisible Epidemic: Abduction Traumatists; 3 Good Subjects: Submitting to the Alien; 4 My Body Is Not My Own: The Intimate Invasion of Alien Technology; 5 An Ongoing and Systematic Breeding Experiment; 6 They Have the Secrets: Conspiracy Theory as Alternative History; 7 This Is Worse Than Friggin' Aliens: Conspiracy Theory and the War against Citizens; 8 Look and See What You Have Done: Abductees and the Burden of Global Consciousness. 
505 8 |a 9 You Have a Sensitivity: The Limits of Chosenness10 Reality Gets Exploded: Abductee Culture, Abductee Belief; Conclusion: Alien Abduction and the New Face of Terror; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 
520 |a 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 W. 
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