Neo Frontier Spaces In Science Fiction Television

Author : Sebastian J. Müller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664957X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Frontier Spaces in Science Fiction Television written by Sebastian J. Müller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings. TV series have long adapted the frontier myth to outer space and have explored American Wests of the future. This book takes a deeper look at the futuristic frontiers within such series as Star Trek, Firefly, Terra Nova, Defiance and The 100, revealing how they rethink colonialism, the environment, spaces of risk and utopian/dystopian worlds. Harnessing forms of speculation and the post-apocalyptic imagination, these series engage with matters of the present, from the legacies of colonialism to climate change and the increasing integration of humans and technologies. In doing so, these series question in novel ways the very idea of borders and reshape cultural binaries such as Self/Other, wilderness/civilization, city/nature, human/non-human and utopia/dystopia.

Author : Joel Hawkes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031105281
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Science Fiction Television and Space written by Joel Hawkes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.

Author : James Van Hise
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780061054365
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sci Fi Tv written by James Van Hise and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of science fiction television covers its most celebrated successes and failures while revealing how the genre shakily began with such programs as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek and rose to galactic proportions. Original.

Author : Jan Johnson-Smith
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567383
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Science Fiction TV written by Jan Johnson-Smith and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction TV and the American psyche.

Author : Sherry Ginn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Space, Our Place written by Sherry Ginn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television, author Sherry Ginn explores the portrayals of female characters in popular Sci Fi television programs. The programs examined include The X-Files, Babylon 5, Farscape, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, and all five Star Treks. The major female characters on each program are discussed with respect to their quest to establish a sense of identity within their particular universe, as depicted on their series. By using current psychological and feminist theories, Ginn skillfully evaluates each character in terms that best exemplify the search for meaning and identity in women's lives.

Author : Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 0857850768
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Science Fiction Film and Television written by Lincoln Geraghty and published by Berg. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the genre, upping the stakes for both technology and apocalypse. From the Cold War through to America's current War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war. The definitive introduction to American science fiction, this is also the first study to analyse SF across both film and TV. Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with critical case studies of key films and television series, including The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and Battlestar Galactica.

Author : Roger Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction written by Roger Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul D. Collins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663213542
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invoking the Beyond: written by Paul D. Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the “Kantian Rift,” an epistemological barrier between external reality and the mind of the percipient. Arbitrarily proclaimed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, this barrier rendered the world as a terra incognita. Suddenly, the world “out there” was deemed imperceptible and unknowable. In addition to the outer world, the cherished metaphysical certainties of antiquity—the soul, a transcendent order, and God—swiftly evaporated. The way was paved for a new set of modern mythmakers who would populate the world “out there” with their own surrogates for the Divine. Collectively, these surrogates could be referred to as the Beyond because they epistemologically and ontologically overwhelm humanity. In recent years, the Beyond has been invoked by theoreticians, literary figures, intelligence circles, and deep state operatives who share some variant of a technocratic vision for the world. In turn, these mythmakers have either directly or indirectly served elitist interests that have been working toward the establishment of a global government and the creation of a New Man. Their hegemony has been legitimized through the invocation of a wrathful earth goddess, a technological Singularity, a superweapon, and extraterrestrial “gods.” All of these are merely masks for the same counterfeit divinity... the Beyond.

Author : Katrina G. Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Spaces written by Katrina G. Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869225
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Channeling the Future written by Lincoln Geraghty and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection of essays that focuses on the disparate visions of the past, present, and future offered by science fiction and fantasy television since the 1950s and that continue into the present day. These essays not only shine new light on often overlooked and forgotten series but also examine the 'look' of science fiction and fantasy television, determining how iconography, location and landscape, special effects, set design, props, and costumes contribute to the creation of future and alternate worlds. Contributors to this volume analyze such classic programs as The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as well as contemporary programs, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Angel, Firefly, Futurama, and the new Battlestar Galactica. These essays provide a much needed look at how science fiction television has had a significant impact on history, culture, and society for the last sixty years.