Download or read book Aliens R Us written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2002-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sardar (postcolonial studies, City U., UK) and Cubitt (screen and media, U. of Waikato, New Zealand) present nine pieces of cultural criticism that explore the meanings projected and assimilated by science fiction movies and television in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. Concerned with the construction of the "other" in the broadest philosophical sense (comprising political, cultural, ethnic, and gendered "others", as well as the "other" of the natural world), the essays explore meaning in Delicatessen, Star Trek, Japanimation, Space: Above and Beyond, The Matrix, and Independence Day, among others. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR