Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar GalacticaTiffany Potter, C. W. Marshall With its fourth season due to air in January 2008, the award-winning Battlestar Galactica continues to be exceptionally popular for non-network television, combining the familiar features of science fiction with direct commentary on life in mainstream America. Cylons in America is the first collection of critical studies of Battlestar Galactica (its 2003 miniseries, and the ongoing 2004 television series), examining its place within popular culture and its engagement with contemporary American society. |
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... Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies , which catches the Colonial government and fleet flatfooted . Like the terrorist attacks of 9/11 , the Cylon attack , as Gavin Edwards suggests , is organized by a group of “ monotheistic religious ...
... attacks and why ? The Cylon attack was swift , brutal , and without advance warning . While " Hero " ( 3.08 ) revisited a period prior to the BSG television series in order to reveal the military's fear of a ( then ) future Cylon attack ...
... Cylon attack devastates the human political structure , so that the presidential succession falls to the secretary of education ( M.01 ) , just as it does in Pat Frank's Alas , Babylon . Unlike the clanking , mechanistic Cylons of the ...
Contents
Equipment for Living in a Post911 | 13 |
Torture Terrorism and Other Aspects of Human Nature | 27 |
Alienation and the Limits of the Utopian Impulse | 40 |
Copyright | |
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