The Stories Told in Science Fiction and Social Science

We re-examine science fiction films of the 1950s (made during the cold war), and their remakes in the 1970s and 1980s (made in the post-sixties, after Vietnam and Watergate) in conjunction with stories told by social scientists during the same eras. In this light. we provide a subversive reading of social scientific data sets and science fiction films, and pay special attention to both versions of The Thing (1951, 1982) as relevant examples of cold war and post-sixties statements. Social scientific and film productions of the 1950s correlate with optimistic public sentiments of the cold war era in regard to the abilities of the military, government, and medicine to solve social problems. The more recent reproductions conjure images of a much more pessimistic view of institutions. We suggest by way of a conclusion that readings of social scientific products, science fiction films, and their remakes can inform social theories in general and postmodern social theories in particular

Aesthetics · Art · Cold war · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

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