They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves The by Bridget Brown PAPERBACK

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves The History and Politics of Alien Abduction\nby Bridget Brown\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bridget Brown\nTitle: They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves The History and Politics of Alien Abduction\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: MI - New York University\nPublication year: 2007\nISBN-13: 9780814799222\nISBN-10: 0814799221\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLooks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television. This work contends that the abduction phenomenon is symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel divested of the ability to know what is true about themselve.