Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist

Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-20
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786471164

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Meeting the Saucer People1. The Saucers Arrive2. A Brief History of Flying Saucers3. The Dawn of Contact: George Adamski4. Contactees in the Space Age: George Adamski’s Legacy in the 1950s and 1960s5. The New Age: Extraterrestrial Contact Since the 1970s6. Dark Contact: Men in Black, Demons and the End of the World7. Sex, Gender and Flying Saucers8. Contact, Humanity and the FutureChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“well-researched and organized...recommended”—Choice; “a significant contribution to the body of literature on the UFO phenomenon in general and the contactee movement in specific”—Journal of American Culture; “an informative overview of saucer lore and some of its main figures as well as an examination of the political and cultural context of contact narratives...useful”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “engrossing and revealing analysis”—Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.