{"product_id":"visions-of-invasion-alien-affects-cinema-and-citizenship-in-settler-colonies-9781496844064","title":"Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies","description":"\u003ci\u003eVisions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, \u003ci\u003eVisions of Invasion\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePredator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMen in Black\u003c\/i\u003e, and more--participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vilified in public discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVisions of Invasion \u003c\/i\u003elies 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 as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today's science fiction landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lechuga\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, where he researches and teaches rhetoric, migration, settler colonial studies, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50928766484754,"sku":"9781496844064","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78838133-4f12-4d1e-886b-b0ce820d1a86.jpg?v=1739014057","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/visions-of-invasion-alien-affects-cinema-and-citizenship-in-settler-colonies-9781496844064","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}