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')
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-196) and index
