The question guiding Fleming’s research is nothing new to the field of ufology. For nearly eighty years, conspiracy theorists, extraterrestrial enthusiasts, and those with a deep-seeded desire to discover the lesser-known activities of governmental agencies have expressed substantial interest in the events that propelled Roswell, New Mexico into a state of alien-centered infamy perhaps only rivaled by Suffolk’s Rendlesham Forest.
Fleming’s book is separated into four distinct sections: “Something Crashed… but What?,” “Are They Watching from Space?,” “It Crashed at Roswell… Right?,” and “Who Knows What the Government Knows?.” Within the title of each sectio...
]]>Stamm’s purpose is, foremost, a corrective one. She notes film studies scholars’ and film critics’ failure to appreciate the biographical films of the New Queer Cinema as part of the biopic genre. Some examples of such films include,...
]]>The collection is split into two sections: “Citizenship-as-Literature” and “Citizenship-in-Literature,” a distinction the editors derive from Robert Weisberg. In short, they distinguish the way citizenship is both textual (and thus open to being read as literature) and representational (citizenship is a theme that plays out in the literary text). As the editors remind us in their introductory chapter, however, these categories do n...
]]>Regarding the ontological approach to beauty, Marrs’s book is in dialogue with seminal studies by specialists in, among o...
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