# Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-29-of-dicks-and-doves

The piece analyses how Team America's final anatomical analogy can override the film's broader critique of American interventionism.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 October 2006

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 29 October 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: film, conceptual-blending, metaphor, politics.

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