To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics

by Jutta Weldes

Book Overview

This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960585
• ISBN13: 9781403960580
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"