Screening Prophetic Machines: Preemption, Minority Report, and the Problem of Multiple Endings.

"Screening Prophetic Machines" argues that director Steven Spielberg's film Minority Report (2002) stages inconsistencies in the ideological fantasies of prophetic inevitability and preventive action that sustained the George W. Bush administration's post 9/11 policy of preemption, otherwise known a...

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Published in:	Science Fiction Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 571 - 595
Main Author:	Acherman, Marc
Format:	Article
Published:	University of California Press Nov2019
Subjects:	Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Utopias in literature Motion picture industry Jameson, Fredric, 1934-
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