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Brainwashing : the fictions of mind control : a study of novels and films since World War II /

"David Seed traces the assimilation of the notion of brainwashing into science fiction, political commentary, and conspiracy narratives of the Cold War era. He demonstrates how these works grew out of a context of political and social events and how they express the anxieties of the time."...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seed, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Precursors: Nineteen eighty-four in context
  • Brainwashing defined and applied
  • Dystopias, invasions, and takeovers
  • The impact of Korea
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • William Burroughs: Control technologies, viruses, and psychotronics
  • Psychotherapy and social enforcement
  • The control of violence
  • The guinea pigs
  • Cyberpunk and other revisions.