num_pages: 278
description: An insurgency struggles against a technologically superior occupying power.Refugees flee persecution with ever-diminishing resources.Society is fractured along ideological lines, fostering political corruption and Machiavellian opportunism.Sexy female robots wield guns.The award-winning and compulsively watchable Battlestar Galactica, "re-imagined" by creator Ronald D. Moore for the twenty-first century, combines many familiar features of science fiction with direct commentary on life in post-9/11 America. At its best, BSG achieves a level of political and social commentary that has not been achieved anywhere else on modern television.Cylons in America presents an edgy, stimulating, and sometimes witty collection of critical studies of BSG, examining the series' place within popular culture and its engagement with contemporary American society. The book is divided into three sections: the first explores how BSG creates a microcosm of our current world; the second considers the Cylons as a mirror of humanity; and the third raises central questions about science fiction as a genre, about the nature of episodic television, and about the role of media in popular culture. For anyone wishing to explore the many worlds of Battlestar Galactica, Cylons in America provides the perfect point of departure.
language: English
title: Cylons in America : Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica
titlecomplete: Cylons in America : Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica
genres: Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 48
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Ray and Pat Browne Award
category: Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture
publisher: Continuum