Spaceships and Politics

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Spaceships and Politics is written by Leslie Dale Feldman and published by Lexington Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0739150502 (ISBN 10) and 9780739150504 (ISBN 13).

Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human nature. While the themes in The Twilight Zone often reflected political concerns of the time, like the Cold War and post-industrial technology, the messages had broader political implications. This book looks at Serling's mechanistic view of the world and emphasis on fear through Hobbesian themes like diffidence and automata.