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Journal articles on the topic "Science fiction, American – Political aspects"

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SWIRSKI, PETER. "Literature as History: The Lives and Deaths of Richard Milhous Slurrie and Walter Bodmor Nixon." Journal of American Studies 43, no. 3 (November 11, 2009): 459–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809990818.

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The enduring success of any roman-à-clef owes to the ghost of the real world lurking, like a palimpsest, behind the storyworld. Barring a few counterfactual twists, Richard Condon's Death of a Politician follows the chequered career of a dead-ringer for Richard Milhous Nixon through the war-scam 1940s, the red scare 1950s, and the freewheeling-dealing 1960s. Square the revisionist drive of Condon's political fiction with the premise of historical veracity, and you may wonder where sober fact ends and fiction begins. How much of Nixon lies in Walter Bodmor Slurrie? How much of Nixon's banker and confidant “Bebe” Rebozo lies in Slurrie's banker and confidant “Kiddo” Cardozo? How much of the Miami mobster Mayer Lansky lies in Cardozo's boss, Miami mobster Abner Danzig? How much of their crass venality and control is the figment of Condon's imagination? Better still, how much is true? In my article I set out to answer all these questions, using Condon's roman-à-clef as a springboard for analysis of salient aspects of the Nixon presidency and of American electoral politics in general.
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Leonard, Karen. "Sandhya Shukla. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (July 2005): 670–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750524029x.

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Sandhya Shukla has written a highly interdisciplinary comparison of Indian diasporic cultures in Britain and the United States. Specializing in Anthropology and Asian American Studies, she is particularly strong on historical and literary text analysis. She says, “The relational aspects of a range of texts and experiences, which include historical narratives, cultural organizations, autobiography and fiction, musical performance and films, are of paramount importance in this critical ethnography” (20). Contending that the Indian diaspora confronts “a simultaneous nationalism and internationalism,” she is celebratory about India and “formations of Indianness,” and uses phrases like “amazing force” and “wildly multicultural” (17). Her exploration shows “the tremendous impulse to multiple nationality that Indianness abroad has made visible” (14) and, “the amazing persistence of Indian cultures in so many places” (22).
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Mejía-Lemos, Diego. "Advisory Opinion OC-22/16." American Journal of International Law 111, no. 4 (October 2017): 1000–1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2017.91.

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On February 26, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) issued an advisory opinion requested by the Republic of Panama (Advisory Opinion). The request stemmed from “doubts among States” as to whether “legal persons, being legal fictions, are not as such entitled to rights” (Request) (para. 2). The Court unanimously held that legal persons are not entitled to rights under the American Convention on Human Rights (Convention) because Article 1.2 of the Convention establishes rights only in favor of natural persons. The Court, also unanimously, reiterated that indigenous and tribal communities are entitled to rights under the Convention. By majority vote, the Court held that labor union organizations are entitled to rights under the Protocol of San Salvador (Protocol). The Advisory Opinion is most significant for its finding regarding labor union organizations and for its analysis of how general international law relates to various aspects of the Inter-American system.
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Berger, Alan L. "AMERICAN JEWISH FICTION." Modern Judaism 10, no. 3 (1990): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.221.

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Rubin, Derek. "Postethnic Experience in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction." Social Identities 8, no. 4 (December 2002): 507–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350463022000068352.

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McMillan, Carl H., and Tamara V. Lavrovskaya. "North American Integration: Economic and Political Aspects." Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques 16, no. 2 (June 1990): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3550975.

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Gil, Noam. "The undesired: on nudniks in Jewish American fiction." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (November 24, 2017): 326–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2017.1406741.

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Rowe, John Carlos. "Buried alive: the native American political unconscious in Louise Erdrich's fiction." Postcolonial Studies 7, no. 2 (July 2004): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1368879042000278870.

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Longden, Kenneth. "China Whispers: The Symbolic, Economic, and Political Presence of China in Contemporary American Science Fiction Film." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0014.

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Abstract China has long been present in Western science fiction, but largely through notions of Orientalism and depictions as the 'Yellow Peril'. However, with China's new ascendancy and modernization over the last 15 years, along with its investment and collaboration with Hollywood in particular, contemporary film in general, and contemporary science fiction in particular, has embraced this new China in ways hitherto unseen before. This essay examines three contemporary western/American science fiction films which each represent and construct China in slightly different ways, and in ways which reveal the West, and Hollywood's reappraisal of the relationship with China and its emerging 'Soft Power.'.
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Mongia, Padmini. "Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 12, no. 1-2 (June 2014): 140–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1477570014z.00000000077.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Science fiction, American – Political aspects"

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Dedman, Stephen. "Techronomicon (novel) ; and The weapon shop : the relationship between American science fiction and the US military (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0093.

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Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Operation Techronomicon, investigating what seems to be a Zhir-built defence shield around the planet Lassana. Another JEF company sent to Kalaabhavan after the murder of the planets Confessor-General loses its CO to a land-mine, and Lieutenant Hellerman reluctantly accepts command. Chevalier, a civilian pilot, takes refugees fleeing military-run detention camps on Ararat to a biological research station on otherwise uninhabited Lila. The biologists on Lila discover a symbiote that enables humans to photosynthesize, which comes to the attention of Operation Techronomicon and the JEF's Weapons Research Division. Leneveldt and Roeder, frustrated by the lack of progress on Lassana, are sent to Lila to detain the biologists, who flee into the swamps. Hellerman's efforts to restore peace on Kalaabhavan are frustrated by the Confessors, and his company finds itself besieged by insurgents. The novel explores individuals' motives for choosing or rejecting violence and/or military service; the lessons they learn about themselves and their enemies; and the possible results of attempts to forcibly suppress ideas.
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Proietti, Salvatore. "The cyborg, cyberspace, and North American science fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/NQ44558.pdf.

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Roy, André 1963. "Une lecture politique de Star trek /." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61800.

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Munoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.

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This dissertation discusses Gayl Jones’s and Toni Morrison’s characterisation of black women’s journeying towards empowered subjectivity and agency.

Through comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.

My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni Morrison. These two writers emerge in the US literary scene during the 1970s, one of the decades of the second black women’s renaissance (1970s, 1980s). This period witnessed unprecedented developments in US black literature and feminist theorising. In the domain of African American letters, it witnessed the emergence of a host of black women writers such as Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison. This period also marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of African American literature, as several unknown or misplaced literary works by pioneering black women writers were discovered, shifting the chronology of African American literature.

Moreover, the second black women's renaissance marks a paradigmatic development in black feminist theorising on womanhood and subjectivity. Many black feminist scholars and activists challenged what they perceived to be the homogenising female subject conceptualised by US white middle-class feminism and the androcentricity of the subject proclaimed by the Black Aesthetic Movement. They claimed that, in focusing solely on gender and patriarchal oppression, white feminism had overlooked the salience of the race/class nexus, while focus by the Black Aesthetic Movement on racism had overlooked the salience of gender and heterosexual discrimination.

In this dissertation, I discuss the works of Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison in the context of seminal debates on the nature of the female subject and the racial and gender politics affecting the construction of empowered subjectivities in black women's fiction.

Through the metaphor of journeying towards female empowerment, I show how Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison engage in imaginative returns to the past in an attempt to relocate black women as literary subjects of primary importance. I also show how, in the works selected for discussion, a complex idea of modern female subjectivities emerges from the writers' re-examination of the oppressive material and psychological circumstances under which pioneering black women lived, the common practice of sexual exploitation with which they had to contend, and the struggle to assert the dignity of their womanhood beyond the parameters of the white-defined “ideological discourse of true womanhood” (Carby, 1987: 25).


Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Mcgauvran, Ronald Joel. "The Middle Matters: Political Responses to Income Inequality in an American State." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157531/.

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Fogelholm, Jens. "Lost in Space : Sökandet efter mening hos människan i Titan A.E." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339480.

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This thesis deals with the depiction of meaningfulness and meaning-making, as seen in human characters in the 2000 animated science fiction film Titan A.E. (directed by Don Bluth). The analysis aims to show how Titan A.E. portrays a collective humanity in their search for a meaningful existence, given the outer space setting of its story. Evil is also brought up, in the context of how it creates meaning within the main narrative of the story. The emotions expressed by the story's characters are treated as if they were real. Meaningfulness and meaning-making get exemplified in both dialogue and visual components seen in the film. In addition to this, some reflection is made on the promotional trailers of Titan A.E. and how their displayed contents differ from the finished product. In parallel to the main analysis, there is a wider discussion made about the relationship between films and their real-world process of production, especially regarding whether theological reflection and the film industry can intersect or not.
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Brocker-Knapp, Skyler Lillian. "The 2016 Presidential Election: Demographic Transformation and Racial Backlash." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3827.

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Despite analysts' predictions and assertions prior to the 2016 presidential election, the Hispanic vote did not prove decisive. Donald Trump's victory elucidates a new electoral calculus, one that will be ruled simultaneously by changing demographics and the backlash against such change. While Hispanic voters largely supported Hillary Clinton, structural and individual impediments hinder their access to the voting booth and their turnout on election day. This thesis explores the reasons why the Hispanic electorate did not prove decisive in the 2016 presidential election. It further illuminates the changing Electoral College map, in which the Midwest and the Rustbelt are determined by an older white electorate and the South and Southwest are determined by an influx of minorities and immigrants, namely the Hispanic electorate. The 2016 presidential election illustrates the demographic changes and subsequent backlash that will persist over the next decade. A growing Hispanic population and electorate will eventually alter the political calculus of national and state elections, but turnout among white voters will continue to prove decisive in the near future. White backlash and transactional voting (e.g. economic, religious) clearly clinched Trump's success in crucial swing states, ultimately securing his Electoral College win. A review of polling prior to the 2016 election, as well as case studies of economic transactional and Hispanic Trump voters, demonstrates the breakdown across party and state lines that ensured Trump's Electoral College victory, despite a large and expanding Hispanic electorate. While it will continue to grow exponentially, it is unlikely that the Hispanic electorate will prove decisive as soon as the 2020 presidential election, but it will inevitably determine national and state elections within the next decade.
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Noriega, Ramiro. "Entre Histoire et mémoire. Un aspect du roman espagnol et hispano-américain à l'aube du XXIème siècle (R. Piglia, R Bolano, J. Cercas)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00977958.

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Dans Les détectives sauvages, Respiration artificielle et Les Soldats de Salamine, Bolaño, Piglia et Cercas mettent en avant trois questions que nous traitons dans cette étude: 1. Le roman est un objet historique, en tant que document et en tant que dispositif du discours. 2. L'écriture de fiction, l'écriture romanesque, la fabrication des romans ne peut se faire sans recourir à la mémoire. 3. La relation conflictuelle entre réel et fiction constitue le terrain de développement du récit contemporain. Le premier chapitre part d'une réflexion sur le rapport entre littérature et Histoire en Amérique Latine et en Espagne ; suit une réflexion sur le concept d'Histoire et le rôle de l'historien dans la littérature, une étude sur les rapports entre le narrateur et l'objet de sa narration, et finalement une analyse sur la littérature en tant que transgression. Dans le deuxième chapitre nous traitons la notion de mémoire en relation avec l'imaginaire ; les notions de durée et d'image chez Platon, Aristote, Freud, Bergson et Ricœur sont à la base de cette analyse. Suit une analyse sur les tensions entre écriture, souvenir et imagination. Nous nous occupons du document et de la fiction en étudiant le rôle des personnages écrivains, de la mémoire en tant qu'imagination, et sur le rapport entre le corps et la mémoire dans l'écriture chez les trois auteurs. Le troisième chapitre pose la question d'une nouvelle poétique de la fiction par une étude sur la notion d'ostranenie de Brecht, ainsi que sur les limites de l'écriture de fiction à travers les notions d'origine, de l'infini, de l'insuffisant, et du dissemblable -- celle-ci par une lecture comparée avec les travaux de Didi-Huberman. Pour finir, une réflexion sur les notions de local, d'universel, du récit manqué, et de l'inutilité de la littérature. Toutes ces notions sont traitées par des analyses ponctuelles des trois romans étudiés.
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Aden, Timothy. "The effects of on-screen messages on viewer perceptions of source credibility and issue valence." Scholarly Commons, 2006. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/645.

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The present study investigates the effects of on-screen messages on viewer perceptions of source credibility and issue valence. Previous research has found that elites utilize framing in order to alter viewer perceptions and change public opinion. An experiment was conducted, which examined whether on-screen messages displayed during a presidential-news conference had any effect on the viewers' perception of sound credibility and issue valence. The results of the study indicate that on-screen messages have no effect on individuals' perceptions of source credibility and issue valence. The study also found that an individual's· political ideology plays a major role in influencing perceptions of source credibility and issue valence.
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Hayaud-Din, Mian Ahad. "U.S. Foreign Policy in Islamic South Asia: Realism, Culture, and Policy Toward Pakistan and Afghanistan." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000074.

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Books on the topic "Science fiction, American – Political aspects"

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Social and virtual space: Science fiction, transnationalism, and the American new right. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2005.

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Allegories of America: Narratives, metaphysics, politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.

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Goldstene, Paul N. The bittersweet century: Speculations on modern science and American democracy. Novato, Calif: Chandler and Sharp, 1989.

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Red stars: Political aspects of Soviet science fiction. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1985.

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Imagining the future: Science and American democracy. New York: Encounter Books, 2008.

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Pulpit science fiction. Lima, Ohio: CSS Pub. Co., 2005.

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Moore, Kelly. Disrupting science: Social movements, american scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Slander: Liberal lies about the American right. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002.

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Dick Cheney saves Paris: A personal and political madcap sci-fi meta-anti-novel. Santa Susana, CA: Love Earth Publications, 2011.

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Profits of science: The American marriage of business and technology. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Science fiction, American – Political aspects"

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Aragão, Octavio. "Brazilian Science Fiction and the Visual Arts: From Political Cartoons to Contemporary Comics." In Latin American Science Fiction, 185–202. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137312778_10.

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Nette, Andrew. "Towards Rollerball." In Rollerball, 21–36. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325666.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses the origins of Rollerball (1975) in the context of science-fiction cinema in the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, when the genre began a move to the centre of the commercial film business. It also took a distinctly dark turn as the impact of the Vietnam War, economic recession, the OPEC oil crisis, debates about overpopulation, environmental destruction, and, in the US, urban decay, and the political corruption revealed by the Watergate scandal worked their way into public consciousness. These concerns were all reflected in 1970s science fiction, and particularly percolated up in the decade's dystopian offerings. They also gave rise to the paranoia cycle of Hollywood thrillers that appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the context of which aspects of Rollerball can be viewed. The chapter then outlines some of the broader cultural debates William Harrison and Norman Jewison found themselves part of during the same period, principally concerns over increasing violence in professional American sport and society more generally, technological change, and growing corporate power.
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Frelik, Paweł. "Jacek Dukaj’s Science Fiction as Philosophy." In Lingua Cosmica, 22–38. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041754.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on Jacek Dukaj, arguably the most interesting voice in contemporary Polish science fiction: the author of six long novels, four long novellas/short novels, and a number of shorts stories, he is also a ten-time nominee and six-time winner of the Janusz Zajdel Award, as well as a recipient of the 2008 European Union Prize for Literature. Dukaj is not only a true heir to Stanisław Lem but, arguably, overshadows the Polish master in terms of narrative complexity and intellectual density. Characterized by narrative, philosophical, and aesthetic complexity, Dukaj’s prose lends itself to a number of readings and approaches, but three aspects of his writing make him unique, both domestically and in a broader context: the genre-bending versatility of his fiction; the unusual dynamic between the practice of worldbuilding and narrative plotting; and the degree to which the author uses science fiction to engage a number of political, social, and cultural aspects of Polish society. In all three spheres, he combines cutting-edge artistry with a critical attitude towards the science-fiction tradition at large and specific scientific, intellectual, and political discourses.
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Barr, Marleen S. "Hillary Orbits an Alternative Universe Earth: Interpreting the USA Network’s Political Animals as Science Fiction." In The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.003.0009.

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Marleen S. Barr’s “Hillary Orbits an Alternative Universe Earth: Interpreting the USA Network’s Political Animals as Science Fiction” concludes the section with an exploration of Sigourney Weaver’s character, Secretary of State Elaine Barrish Hammond, as a fantasy figure. Weaver resonates contextually through the science fictional heroines she portrayed in Aliens and Avatar while her character in Political Animals (2012) echoes the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Through such parallels, argues Barr, the series exemplifies a power fantasy, recasting Clinton as an alternative history superhero.
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Zelizer, Julian E. "What Political Science Can Learn from the New Political History." In Governing America. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691150734.003.0006.

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This chapter considers the contributions that the new political history can make to the field of political science. It first examines how political historians have revitalized their field in recent years before discussing three particular aspects of the literature that are essential for beginning an interdisciplinary dialogue between political history and political science: research on the motivations behind the rise of American conservatism, the discovery of the nineteenth-century state, and arguments about the particularities of public policy. The chapter also explores some key issues that need to addressed so that historians can connect with political scientists, such as the history of political economy or the history of liberalism.
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Selisker, Scott. "Uniquely American Symptoms." In Human Programming. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816699872.003.0002.

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The first chapter explores how 1940s and 1950s ideas about totalitarianism and brainwashing established a way of talking about free American selves as opposed to unfree, totalitarian others in political science, propaganda, fiction, and films like The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The chapter analyses representations of totalitarianism, brainwashing, and the military. It explores these in discourse around the Korean War, communist China, and African American prisoners of war.
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Wedeen, Lisa. "Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism, and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East." In Middle East Studies for the New Milleniu. NYU Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479827787.003.0002.

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This chapter examines how political science's complicities with the US empire would jibe with the two aspects of political science that are currently defining the discipline—the convergence, or perhaps more historically accurate, the continuing coalescence in new forms, of science and liberalism. It fleshes out those links while considering how scholarly convictions, combined with the realities of US foreign policy, have structured the terms in which the Middle East is studied today. The first section explores the discipline's seemingly contradictory commitments to value-neutrality and liberal values. The second section foregrounds the constitutive relationship between science, liberalism, and empire in the making of modern Middle Eastern politics as an area of academic inquiry.
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Flint, Kate. "Savagery and Nationalism: Native Americans and Popular Fiction." In The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930, 136–66. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691203188.003.0006.

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This chapter explores British popular writing. It considers some of the means by which stereotypes of Indians that emanated from the United States circulated within Britain and were modified and filtered through domestic concerns. The chapter first assesses the influence that James Fenimore Cooper had on transatlantic adventure and historical fiction, and then pass to Charles Dickens's often contradictory treatments of native peoples, before looking at the more complicated case of Mayne Reid. This British writer of popular Westerns employed contemporary American-generated stereotypes of Indians and at times reinforced that country's message of manifest destiny, yet he also managed to question certain political and racial aspects of American life in a way that offered up a warning to his home readership. These stereotypes are read through a consideration of the shifting nuances of the idea of the “savage” in mid-Victorian Britain.
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Prewitt, Kenneth. "Race Science Captures the Prize, the U.S. Census." In What Is "Your" Race? Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691157030.003.0004.

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This chapter narrates the race science story. Among the more important was the shift from simply counting races, as was needed to make the three-fifths policy work, to investigating characteristics considered unique to different races. The policy goal was to determine who was fit for citizenship responsibilities: whites, certainly; the American Indian, probably not; the African, clearly not. The statistical races helped fix the color line in American politics, essentially drawing policy boundaries that gradually governed all aspects of life: schooling, housing, employment, marriage, travel, and political participation. The political understanding that counting the population by race could do nationally significant policy work led naturally to a close partnership between race science and census statistics, setting the stage for what scholars call evidence-based policy 150 years later.
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"Ars Longa." In Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, 96–120. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3808-1.ch006.

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The chapter dwells upon the original research on the subject of analyses of aspects of international political communication employing the prognostic function of audiovisual media. Shown is certain, lesser-studied effectiveness of creative approaches and “artistic filter” in the field of political science. The author considers the problems and stresses on advantages of the use of narrative fiction audiovisual works as additional empirical sources in the research of international political communication.
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Conference papers on the topic "Science fiction, American – Political aspects"

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Feldhoff, Jan Fabian, Carina Hofmann, Stefan Hübner, Jan Oliver Kammesheidt, Martin Kilbane, Julie Bachmann Kulik, Siva Pilli, Franco Schubert, Waterloo Tsutsui, and Charlene Tung. "Shaping Our Future With Sustainable Energy: A Direction From Young Engineers." In ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2012-91324.

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It is broadly accepted that current energy systems should become more sustainable in both a global and local context. However, setting common goals and shared objectives and determining the appropriate means by which to get there is the subject of heavy debate. Therefore, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the German Association of Engineers (VDI) initiated a joint project aimed at providing a young engineers’ perspective to the global energy conversation. The young engineer project teams set a common goal of assembling a completely sustainable energy system for the U.S. and Germany by 2050. This includes not only the electricity market, but the overall energy system. Based on the current global energy paradigm, a completely sustainable energy system seems very ambitious. However, multiple analyses show that this path is possible and would in the medium to long run not only be desirable, but also competitive in the market. This future ‘energy puzzle’ consists of many important pieces, and the overall picture must be shaped by an overarching strategy of sustainability. Besides the many detailed pieces, four main critical issues must be addressed by engineers, politicians and everybody else alike. These challenges are: i) Rational use of energy: This uncomfortable topic is rather unappealing to communicate, but is a key issue to reduce energy demand and to meet the potentials of renewable energy carriers. ii) Balancing of electricity demand and generation: This is a challenge to the electricity markets and infrastructures that are currently designed for base-load, mainly fossil power plants. The overall mix of renewable energy generation, storage technologies, grid infrastructure, and power electronics will decide how efficient and reliable a future energy system will be. iii) Cost efficiency and competitiveness: It is a prerequisite for industrialized countries to stay competitive and to establish RE in the market. Developing economic technologies while at the same time establishing a strong RE market is the secret of success. iv) Acceptance of the system and its consequences: The best energy strategy cannot be realized without broad public acceptance for it. Therefore, the understanding of the energy technologies and an objective discussion must be promoted — without old fashioned emotionalizing of certain risks. The paper will present details on the four mentioned aspects, compare the situations between the U.S. and Germany, and propose solutions for appropriate political frame conditions to achieve a sustainable energy system.
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