001479734 000__ 04990nam\a22010095i\4500 001479734 001__ 1479734 001479734 003__ DE-B1597 001479734 005__ 20231026035108.0 001479734 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479734 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479734 008__ 230918t20072007nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479734 020__ $$a9780814739174 001479734 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814739174.001.0001$$2doi 001479734 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548524 001479734 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479734 0410_ $$aeng 001479734 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479734 050_4 $$aBF2050 .B76 2007 001479734 072_7 $$aHIS054000$$2bisacsh 001479734 08204 $$a001.942 001479734 1001_ $$aBrown, Bridget, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479734 24510 $$aThey Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves :$$bThe History and Politics of Alien Abduction /$$cBridget Brown. 001479734 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2007] 001479734 264_4 $$c©2007 001479734 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479734 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479734 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479734 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479734 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479734 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Elusive Shreds of Memory -- $$t2. The Invisible Epidemic -- $$t3. Good Subjects -- $$t4. My Body Is Not My Own -- $$t5. An Ongoing and Systematic Breeding Experiment -- $$t6. They Have the Secrets -- $$t7. This Is Worse Than Friggin' Aliens -- $$t8. Look and See What You Have Done -- $$t9. You Have a Sensitivity -- $$t10. Reality Gets Exploded -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479734 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479734 520__ $$aSince 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. 001479734 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479734 546__ $$aIn English. 001479734 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479734 650_0 $$aAlien abduction. 001479734 650_0 $$aHuman-alien encounters. 001479734 650_4 $$aHISTORY / Social History$$2sh. 001479734 653__ $$aBetter. 001479734 653__ $$aKnow. 001479734 653__ $$aOurselves. 001479734 653__ $$aThan. 001479734 653__ $$aThey. 001479734 653__ $$aabduction. 001479734 653__ $$abelief. 001479734 653__ $$aconstituted. 001479734 653__ $$adiscourse. 001479734 653__ $$aextraterrestrials. 001479734 653__ $$afilm. 001479734 653__ $$aimages. 001479734 653__ $$alooks. 001479734 653__ $$apopular. 001479734 653__ $$aprint. 001479734 653__ $$aprovided. 001479734 653__ $$atelevision. 001479734 653__ $$athrough. 001479734 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479734 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479734 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814799215 001479734 852__ $$bebk 001479734 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739174$$zOnline Access 001479734 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479734$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479734 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479734 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479734 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479734 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479734 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479734 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479734 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479734 980__ $$aBIB 001479734 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479734 982__ $$aEbook 001479734 983__ $$aOnline