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Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
Stephen Benedict Dyson
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Description for Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
Paperback. A vital spur to creative thinking for scholars and an accessible introduction for students, this book will appeal to fans of these three influential shows. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT; JPA; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 241 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
In Otherworldly Politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows: Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica. Dyson explains how these shows offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated by politics and history, science fiction and fantasy screenwriters and showrunners suffuse their scripts with real-world ideas of empire, war, civilization, and culture, lending episodes a compelling intricacy and contemporary resonance. Dyson argues that science fiction and fantasy television creators share a fundamental kinship with great minds in international relations. Screenwriters like Gene Roddenberry, George ... Read more
In Otherworldly Politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows: Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica. Dyson explains how these shows offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated by politics and history, science fiction and fantasy screenwriters and showrunners suffuse their scripts with real-world ideas of empire, war, civilization, and culture, lending episodes a compelling intricacy and contemporary resonance. Dyson argues that science fiction and fantasy television creators share a fundamental kinship with great minds in international relations. Screenwriters like Gene Roddenberry, George ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
299g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417165
SKU
V9781421417165
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99-1
About Stephen Benedict Dyson
Stephen Benedict Dyson is an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Blair Identity: Leadership and Foreign Policy and Leaders in Conflict: Bush and Rumsfeld in Iraq.
Reviews for Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
... Otherworldly Politics is undeniably one of the most lively and ebullient books on IR theory on the market today. Its premise-that televised genre fiction can reveal truths about international relations just as easily as it does about character and plot-is well founded and expertly elaborated by Dyson's spritely prose.
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