Bush's America and the Return of Cold War Science Fiction: Alien Invasion in Invasion, Threshold, and Surface.

In 2005, three U.S. television networks launched science fiction shows about alien invasion that commented critically on conditions in the United States after 9/11. Although their close alignment with films from the 1950s limited the efficiency of their critique, their conservative context re-situated them as moderately oppositional texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]