RELIGST 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pixar
29 Nov 2018
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1: although he insists that alien abduction is an international phenomenon, john e. mack admits that abductees tend to be american (445). Bridget brown accounts for the spread of abduction narratives beyond the united states by classifying them as an american cultural export (11). We know of alien abduction narratives through books, music, and television. The film"s humor relies on the presumption that even audiences composed primarily of children would be familiar with the conventions of the abduction narrative. The demographics of alien abduction: abduction narratives overwhelmingly come from americans, john mack, a harvard researcher cited by tromly, insists on the diversity of class and profession amongst abductees, mack does not mention race tromly: The claim that aliens plague all segments of american society does not withstand scrutiny because, put bluntly, alien abduction is racially exclusive. The vast majority of americans who claim to have been abducted are white.
