Space and Time

Buch | Softcover

231 Seiten

2010
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3664-4 (ISBN)

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Includes essays that investigate the relationship between our past and science fiction and fantasy television. This title also includes essays that contextualize a particular program or series while others discern ways in which a show depicts history.

Essays in this work investigate the relationship between our past and science fiction and fantasy television. Some essays contextualize a particular program or series while others discern ways in which a show depicts history. Thus, through close readings of televised science fiction and fantasy, some authors illuminate such topics as Cold War culture, renegotiations of race and gender, anxiety over the impact of technology, and the legacies of colonialism. Other authors study science fiction and fantasy television to show how historical narratives are constructed and communicated to the larger public.

David C. Wright, Jr., is an associate professor and chair of the Department of History and Government at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Allan W. Austin is a history professor at Misericordia University. He is also a book review editor for Journal of American Ethnic History.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Viewing the Past through Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

DAVID C. WRIGHT, JR., AND ALLAN W. AUSTIN

1. Reflections of a Nation’s Angst; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Twilight Zone

NOVOTNY LAWRENCE

2. Beneath the Surface: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Cold War Science Fiction

RANDALL CLARK

3. Looking Glass War: The Topsy-Turvy World of The Prisoner

BRYAN E. VIZZINI

4. The Limits of Star Trek’s Final Frontier: “The Omega Glory” and 1960s American Liberalism

ALLAN W. AUSTIN

5. Lost in Translation: Autonomy, Agency, and Cybernetic Anxiety from Apollo to The Six Million Dollar Man

DARYL LEE

6. It’s About Tempus: Greece and Rome in “Classic” Doctor Who

ANTONY KEEN

7. Constructing a Grand Historical Narrative: Struggles through Time on Highlander: The Series

DAVID C. WRIGHT, JR.

8. The Future as Past Perfect: Appropriation of History in the Star Trek Series

JUDITH LANCIONI

9. Too Close for Comfort? Exploring the Construction of Near Future Historical Narratives in Science Fiction Television

KORCAIGHE P. HALE

10. “The Future Is the Past”: Music and History in Firefly

KENDRA PRESTON LEONARD

11. The Battle for History in Battlestar Galactica

JANICE LIEDL

Suggested Readings in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

DAVID C. WRIGHT, JR.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2010
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 224 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	0-7864-3664-6 / 0786436646
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-3664-4 / 9780786436644
Zustand	Neuware