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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... Horror Alison Peirse The Cylons are figured as uncanny in Battlestar Galactica in a variety of ways , not least because of their familiar human appearance , and the revelation that , underneath the flesh , they are robots . This chapter ...
... horror in film and literature to offer up an uncanny mode of television viewing . In fact , BSG moves beyond this notion of the uncanny double suggested by Freud and the horror of the animation of the inanimate outlined by Jentsch ...
... horror is not ' really ' horror precisely because it cannot go all - out to scare audiences : types of graphic ' splatter ' horror that are possible in novels and films are generally less permissible in made - for - TV horror " ( 115 ) ...
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 |
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