Media encoding in science fiction television: Battlestar Galactica as a site of critical cultural production.
We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people working on the show to illustrate the production context of the show and the science fiction (sf) genre. Media scholars suggest sf stories are critical stories about our political systems and our anxiet...
| Publicado en: | Media, Culture & Society Vol. 37; no. 8; pp. 1210 - 1226 |
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