Fashion imagery turns alien and chilling when absorbed into science fiction codes.

Evidence

Thus, to begin with the most obvious examples, there does not seem much doubt that images like the fashion model or mannequin sequences are strongly and crudely rewritten when they intersect with the force field of the science fiction movie and its various logos (visual, musical, verbal): at such moments the familiar human world of advertising and fashion becomes “estranged” (a concept to which we will return), and the contemporary department store becomes as peculiar and as chilling as any of the institutions of an alien society on a distant planet. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 238

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘department store becomes as peculiar as an alien planet institution’ image is a ready-made analytical hook for teaching estrangement with a concrete modern example.
• XREF: connects to: The numinous can be decoupled from religion and experienced as alien tranquillity — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 359
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The numinous can be decoupled from religion and experienced as alien tranquillity — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 359