Download or read book Spaceships and Politics written by Leslie Dale Feldman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human nature. This book looks at Serling's mechanistic view of the world and emphasis on fear through Hobbesian themes like diffidence and automata.