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UNINA9910817019703321 |
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Autore |
Badmington Neil <1971-, > |
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Titolo |
Alien chic : posthumanism and the other within / / Neil Badmington |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-38888-8 |
0-203-68734-5 |
9786610178179 |
1-134-38889-6 |
1-280-17817-5 |
0-203-30764-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human-alien encounters - Public opinion - History |
Martians - Public opinion - History |
Humanism - History |
Science fiction films - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-196) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : they all laughed -- Reading the Red Planet ; or, little green men at work -- It lives! ; or, the persistence of humanism -- I want to be leaving ; or, tracking alien abduction -- Alien objects, human subjects -- A crisis of versus : rereading the alien -- Conclusion : from difference to differance (with an 'a'). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Alien Chic sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others. |
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