Monsters, Monsters Everywhere: Spooky TV and the Politics of Fear in Post-9/11 America.

This essay examines the recent but short-lived spate of sf television programs focused on alien invasions of the US Homeland, including "Surface," "Invasion," and "Threshold." It argues that these programs provide tools for thinking through the Bush administration's politics of fear and its conseque...

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Published in:	Science Fiction Studies Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
Main Author:	Takacs, Stacy
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of California Press Mar2009
Subjects:	Essays Science fiction television programs Surface (TV program) Invasion (TV program) Threshold (TV program)
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