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| | HiES - Flash Gordon |
 | | The most typical instance of this kind in SF are space-operas: space adventures in which the most incredible vehicles wildly chase each other in the most impossible worlds, where blasters shoot, seductive beauties sparkle... |
 | | And immediately we notice archetypes: the intelligent, able American graduate educated in the famous Anglosaxon science-and-sports regime; the mad scientist of German and Russian descent; the gentle and feminine, faithful and devoted maiden, with a French surname; the chief enemy belongs to the yellow, slanteyed race; technological futurism and fantastic landscapes as scenery. |
 | | Of course, in fifty-odd years of publication 'Flash Gordon' went through numerous changes, but it was retained its archetypal, clichee, romantic, male chauvinistic and adventureous approach to this very day. |
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