Activist & Political · SF & Fantasy
Cylons, Avatars, and Barack Obama: Science Fiction and Hybridity After 9/11
“Veering away from jingoistic portrayals of ‘us’ and the ‘Other,’ these films advocate instead a complex and globally entwined future of hybrid identities along with critical consideration of the political and cultural consequences of advanced technology.”


Natalie Bograd recently graduated with a BA in Film Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder (home of the late, great Stan Brakhage). A self-admitted sci-fi geek, she became a film major in order to find an academic justification for her Star Wars obsession and along the way fell in love with Busby Berkeley musicals, 1950s monster movies, and Terrence Malick.





