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Spaceships and politics : the political theory of Rod Serling

By Serling , Rod; Feldman , Leslie Dale

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2010
ISBN
0739120441, 978-0-7391-2044-6, 978-0-7391-5050-4, 0739150502, 9780739150511, 0739150510, 978-0-7391-2045-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1079136 bytes)
Pages
155\168
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human nature. While the themes in The Twilight Zone often reflected political concerns of the time, like the Cold War and post-industrial technology, the messages had broader political implications. This book looks at Serling's mechanistic view of the world and emphasis on fear through Hobbesian themes like diffidence and automata

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