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SAVIORS AND SCIENTISTS: Extraterrestrials in Recent Science Fiction Films
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“Although the alien messiah makes a brief appearance, particularly during the 1970s (see Ruppersberg, 1987), when 'a series of extremely popular science fiction movies featured extraterrestrials that are gentle, polite, wise, and above all, benevolent [ possessing] a near saintly tolerance for human weakness and blundering' (Brain, 1983, p. 218), this appearance was not to last.”
From Alien demonology: The Christian roots of the malevolent extraterrestrial in UFO religions and abduction spiritualities (2004) · cites this paper as Brain, 1983
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- Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster,” Against Interpretation, (1966), pp. 209–225.
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Partridge, C. (2004) · Religion · doi:10.1016/j.religion.2004.04.014 · Cited by 16
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- Authors
- Brain, B., & Rosen, J.
- Affiliations
- Bonnie Brain is a frequent movie-goer who lives in New York.
- Venue
- ETC: A Review of General Semantics
- Publisher
- Institute of General Semantics
- Published
- 1983
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 218-229
- ISSN
- 0014-164X (ISSN-L)
- 2168-9245
- OpenAlex
- W7203708533
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
- Keywords
- extraterrestrials, science fiction film, savior, scientists, film and science
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- Brain, B., & Rosen, J. (1983). SAVIORS AND SCIENTISTS: Extraterrestrials in Recent Science Fiction Films. ETC: A Review of General Semantics. https://doi.org/10.66774/etc_4002_218
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