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  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  July 10, 2007

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  African slaves is sacrificed for the reconstruction of the nation. In this scene Tigh begins explaining ... into danger in the first place. Rather than continuing Bulldog’s story, Tigh begins to tell his own: ...
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  The Rest is Static: Jericho and the Politics of Nuclear War

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  February 16, 2007

  a nuclear launch, suggesting at least some awareness of the history of representations of nuclear war. It ... the knowledge that nuclear weapons were detonated in at least fifteen cities, and subsequent episodes ...
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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 12, 2007

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  witnesses his suffering (and “touches” him through the airlock glass), begins a disturbing relationship that ...
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  Intimate Threats: Ubiquity of Terror in ‘the 4400′

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  Christian Erickson Roosevelt University

  October 12, 2007

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  to Promicin advocates and “the 4400” at the beginning of the clip, is but one manifestation of the ...
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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  July 13, 2007

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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi? terrorism Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica cable original programming ratings Curator's Note Time Magazine has hailed BSG as the best program on television. Critics praise its under-dog protagonists' perspecti ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom" Sci-fi Queer Studies horror Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the past two decades. No, really. For all of its problems, Mar ...
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  “A Trek for Our Time”: The Continuing Relevance and Resonance of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  Allison McCracken DePaul University

  March 19, 2007

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  “A Trek for Our Time”: The Continuing Relevance and Resonance of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine narrative Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica fan vids genre aesthetics Star Trek Deep Soace Nine 9/11 Ronald D. Moore Peabody awards comparative Curator's Note Watch ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...