Memories of Abuse and Alien Abduction: Close Encounters of a Therapeutic Kind

2005 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
M. J. Power
Keyword(s):  
Close Encounters ◽  
Alien Abduction

Introduction: ‘The UFOs Are Coming!’

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Jon Towlson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
New Age ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Third ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Alien Abduction

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Close Encounters is a UFO movie that arose from a resurgence of ufology in the 1970s, which coincided with the growth of New Age movements, mysticism, alien-abduction cults, and an increasing belief in conspiracy theories. The film speaks to Utopianism, the belief within international relations theory that war can be eliminated either by perfecting man or by perfecting government. Utopianism is, of course, a key concept in science fiction. The chapter then looks at Jack Kroll's review of Close Encounters, which demonstrates how so many of the political criticisms surrounding the film stem from the time of its initial reception, and how its cultural denotation as ‘transcendent’ science fiction was immediately recognised and accepted by some — but not all — critics. The chapter also details the synopsis of the film.

Close Encounters of the Intimate Kind

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 873-874
Author(s):  
Harry T. Reis
Keyword(s):  
Close Encounters

scholarly journals Close encounters with scientific analogies of the third kind

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Nappo
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Close Encounters

AbstractArguments from non-causal analogy form a distinctive class of analogical arguments in science not recognized in authoritative classifications by, e.g., Hesse (1963) and Bartha (2009). In this paper, I illustrate this novel class of scientific analogies by means of historical examples from physics, biology and economics, at the same time emphasizing their broader significance for contemporary debates in epistemology.

scholarly journals Close encounters of the three morphs: Does color affect aggression in a polymorphic lizard?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Scali ◽  
Marco Mangiacotti ◽  
Roberto Sacchi ◽  
Alan Jioele Coladonato ◽  
Mattia Falaschi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Close Encounters

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel J. Dominy ◽  
Laurel B. Symes
Keyword(s):  
Close Encounters
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