They know us better than we know ourselves

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.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

New York University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

247

ISBN

9780814799215

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata