Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It
already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like
Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked
changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent
Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China
Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention
to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing
prophecy"-Nineteen Eighty-Four-girded countless citizens to stay
wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While
optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large
and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze,
contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise
grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for
unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the
romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited
vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film
preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity
and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us
free. No one is spared scrutiny! Not Spielberg or Tolkien or
Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks.
Certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand! Though some critiques are
offered from a lifetime of respect and love... and gratitude.
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