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The Technology of Consent: American Science Fiction and Cultural Crisis in the 1980s

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Andrews, Chad, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The 1980s in the United States have come into focus as years of extensive ideological and socioeconomic fracture. A conservative movement arose to counter the progressive gains of previous decades, neoliberalism became the nation's economic mantra, and détente was jettisoned in favour of military build-up. Such developments materialized out of a multitude of conflicts, a cultural… more
Full Text: THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONSENT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND CULTURAL CRISIS IN THE 1980s A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …