{"product_id":"visions-of-invasion-9781496844057","title":"Visions of Invasion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 vi","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50051598254423,"sku":"9781496844057","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496844057.jpg?v=1740363987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-invasion-9781496844057","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}