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Susan Sontag. Science fiction films are not about science . They are about disas- ter , which is one of the oldest subjects of art . In science fiction films disaster is rarely viewed intensively ; it is always extensive . It is a matter ...
Susan Sontag. Science fiction films are not about science . They are about disas- ter , which is one of the oldest subjects of art . In science fiction films disaster is rarely viewed intensively ; it is always extensive . It is a matter ...
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... science fiction films , some of it touching , some of it depressing . Again and again , one detects the hunger for a " good war , " which poses no moral problems , admits of no moral qualifications . The imagery of sci- ence fiction films ...
... science fiction films , some of it touching , some of it depressing . Again and again , one detects the hunger for a " good war , " which poses no moral problems , admits of no moral qualifications . The imagery of sci- ence fiction films ...
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... science fiction , Fifty - Five Days in Peking [ 1963 ] . There , topically ... films also project a Utopian fantasy . In the classic models of Utopian ... science fiction films , totally pacified and ruled by scientific consensus , the ...
... science fiction , Fifty - Five Days in Peking [ 1963 ] . There , topically ... films also project a Utopian fantasy . In the classic models of Utopian ... science fiction films , totally pacified and ruled by scientific consensus , the ...
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