[PDF.30kn] Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture

Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture

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 | #3712841 in Books |  Prometheus Books |  2003-04-01 |  2003-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.26 x1.45 x6.30l,2.15 | File type: PDF | 595 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Could have been better.|By J. M. Black|Let me preface this review by saying that I'm well educated. While I don't have a master's degree or Ph.D., I do have two bachelors (one BA and one BS) and two minors (one in history) from a well-known four year liberal arts university. I have read and still read plenty of academic works, and this book was obviously written by an academi| |"...an informative read and a much-needed work on the alien image in popular culture." -- Science Fiction Studies, 2004

"...extensively researched...this volume deserves serious attention from historians of science..." -- Isis, March 2004<

In this witty, erudite, and thoroughly researched book, art historian John Moffitt discusses the popular iconography depicting alleged extraterrestrial (ET) visitors and the widespread appeal of this New Age craze as a mass cultural phenomenon. A thorough skeptic, Moffitt is interested in kitschy ET portraiture, not as evidence of aliens among us, but for what this imagery reveals about contemporary culture. By brilliantly placing the present cultural moment in historica...

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