Bøker av David Seed

Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence.

This study examines the US fiction and related films which makes a series of interventions in the cultural debate over the threat of nuclear terrorism.

This study of literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era reviews science fiction, Korean War fiction, and The Manchurian Candidate film. It explores how views on brainwashing changed from an external threat to American values to an internal threat against individual American liberties by the US government.

Seed, a reader in the department of English at the University of Liverpool, investigates political inflections in American science fiction during the Cold War. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are explored in such science fiction nar