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Roth, Lane – 1983
"Battlestar Galactica," ABC-TV's prime-time science fiction series for 1978-79, illustrates how popular, mass media entertainment can communicate contradictory meanings that correlate with unresolved cultural tensions. The ambiguity of visual design is especially confusing because it is contrapuntal to the simplicity and clarity of the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Futures (of Society), Imagery, Mass Media Role
