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Description

1. x, 183 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico-United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films-The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more-participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vilified in public discourse. Beyond just tracing how alien invasion narratives circulate in popular media, Lechuga describes how the logics motivating early US colonists materialize in both the US's citizenship control policy and in some of the country's most popular texts. Beneath each of the film franchises and antimigrant political expressions described in Visions of Invasion lies an anxious colonial logic in which the settler way of life is seemingly threated by false narratives of imminent invasion from abroad. The volume offers a deep dive into how the rhetorical figure of the alien has been manufactured through media and surveillance technologies as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today's science fiction landscape"--

Series statement

1. Race, rhetoric, and media

Uniform title

1. Race, rhetoric, and media series.

Subject

1. Citizenship in motion pictures
2. Immigrants in motion pictures
3. Extraterrestrial beings in motion pictures
4. Criticism

Contents

1. Introduction -- The War of the Worlds and alien making -- Predator assemblages -- Men in Black assemblages -- Sleep Dealer, nomadic assemblages, and deterritorializations -- Conclusion.

Call number

1. MFL 23-3644

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-175) and index.

Author

1. Lechuga, Michael, author.

Title

1. Visions of invasion : alien affects, cinema, and citizenship in settler colonies / Michael Lechuga.

Publisher

1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Race, rhetoric, and media
2. Race, rhetoric, and media series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-175) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Lechuga, Michael. Visions of invasion Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 9781496844071 (DLC) 2022043332

LCCN

1. 2022043331

ISBN

1. 9781496844057 hardcover
2. 149684405X hardcover
3. 9781496844064 paperback
4. 1496844068 paperback
5. 9781496844071 electronic bool
6. 9781496844088 electronic book
7. 9781496844095 electronic book
8. 9781496844101 electronic book

Research call number

1. MFL 23-3644