E.T. Go Home: Indigeneity, Multiculturalism and ‘Homeland’ in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1257Keywords:
E.T., Indians, aliens, belonging, identityAbstract
Readings of films involving alien invasions do not take into account the fact that in many science fiction films, notably 'E. T', aliens are benign and friendly, are trapped in human societies, and desire above all to return to their homelands. A key to understanding such good aliens is the idea of the 'Indian', a figure widely used in the US to encode ideas about home, belonging and identity, often through the deployment of New Age discourses.
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