Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar GalacticaTiffany Potter, C. W. Marshall Bloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 278 lappuses 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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... suggests the ways women have , indeed , been reduced to the status of a resource - producing com- modity . Sedated , they have no subjectivity ; they are only bodies and their only value is in reproduction . Ironically , Sharon suggests ...
... suggests that humans , like Cylons , exploit women's reproductive labor and sexuality . The series problematizes its own utopian impulse by blurring the demarcation between human / Cylon , good / bad . As is the case with its treatment ...
... suggests that " something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ” ( 341 ) , and questions what it is about the familiar that can become transformed to make it frightening . His theory draws upon unconscious ...
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