Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling

by Leslie Dale Feldman

Book Overview

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. This book looks at Serling's mechanistic view of the world and emphasis on fear through Hobbesian themes like diffidence and automata.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073912045X
• ISBN13: 9780739120453
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"