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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... Leoben . Leoben is obsessed with Starbuck after she interrogated him aboard Galactica ( " Flesh and Bone " 1.08 ) and is determined to make Starbuck love him . Leoben has kidnapped Starbuck and keeps her prisoner in his modern and ...
... Leoben with Kacey . The final scene between the pair has aggressive sexual overtones , insinuating rape and murder . The threat of sexual violence is implicit throughout the episodes featuring Leoben and Starbuck . Although until this ...
... Leoben is beaten and almost drowned after being forcibly submerged in water by the guards assisting Starbuck . The ... Leoben , and tries to intervene when President Roslin orders Leoben be killed . In her first confrontation with an ...
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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