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Collective Imagination and the Superpower State: Science Fiction and U.S. Militarism in the Late Twentieth Century
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Collective Imagination and the Superpower State: Science Fiction and U.S. Militarism in the Late Twentieth Century. |
| 개인저자 | Andrews, Erin. |
| 단체저자명 | Northwestern University. English. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Northwestern University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 318 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-05A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781088377444 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.
Advisor: Davis, Nick. |
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| 요약 | Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the United States expanded the scale, funding, and technological sophistication of its defense resources, enabling its current standing as the dominant global military superpower. This dissertation examines the role that the popular narrative genre of science fiction played in shaping American cultural imagination about the U.S. military in this period, exploring how specific novels and films influenced political consent for state processes of military expansion. It argues that science fiction has been complicit with American military power, seemingly paradoxically, through its voicing of dissatisfaction with the U.S. state and the structure of the military itself. This argument complicates previous characterizations of the genre in literary and cultural studies as a form inherently oppositional to hegemonic power, instead using feminist and queer affect theory to illustrate how the genre's genuine critical impulses have often dissipated dissent, rather than fomenting it. Including case studies of novels by Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, and Orson Scott Card, as well as of films directed by George Lucas and James Cameron, the project situates popular works of science fiction with archival research on public political rhetoric, government policy, and records of reader response to demonstrate the impact of the genre on U.S. military power. |
| 일반주제명 | American literature. Gender studies. Cultural anthropology. American history. Military studies. American studies. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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