As the previous chapter indicates, the 1980s science fiction blockbuster exhibited an overwhelming concern with masculine identity and subjectivity. Both the ‘family films’ and the ‘cyborg films’ I have discussed seemed, in one way or another, to question, reinvent and/or preserve outmoded forms of masculine subjectivity in a world that was fast moving toward cybernetic connectivity and globalisation. At its most basic, the Freudian model of gender acquisition was based upon the bourgeois family and required the presence of both the father and mother in order for the boy-child to successfully complete his passage into manhood and take up his role within a wider, patriarchal society. As previously explored, notions of ‘proper’ family arrangements, and the demarcated roles that the father and mother traditionally played within this scenario, had been challenged by feminism and the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. However, in the late 1970s a ‘politics of return’ emerged with the rising power exhibited by the New Right movement. Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner describe the New Right as: