Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s

by Aaron John Gulyas

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786471166
• ISBN13: 9780786471164
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher