@article{1479734,
      recid = {1479734},
      author = {Brown, Bridget, },
      title = {They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : The History  and Politics of Alien Abduction /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479734},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814739174.001.0001},
}