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License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenDissertation • April 28th, 2015
This dissertation began with two basic goals: to see how emotions could contrib- ute to the political and cognitive qualities of science kction, and to demonstrate through visual analysis how the concept of emotion itself might be treated and explored “science kctionally,” or as part of the cognitive depiction of alternative worlds that can encourage new avenues of political thought. In order to accom- plish this, I used science kction manga as a source of SF where character emotions are generally prominent, and then explored SF manga terms of its potential to express political ideas through the visual expression of emotion. Bridging the concept of SF as a form of narrative which encourages people to imagine and desire something beyond their own circumstances through cognitive explora- tion with manga’s long history of artistic and narrative development in regards to communicating ideas through depictions of emotion, I showed that science kction and more traditionally character-based k
