The Multiple Worlds Of Fringe

Author : Tanya R. Cochran
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475676
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multiple Worlds of Fringe written by Tanya R. Cochran and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With diverse contributions from scholars in English literature, psychology, and film and television studies, this collection of essays contextualizes Fringe as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology transforms our humanity. In compiling this collection, the editors sought material as multifaceted as the series itself, devoting sections to specific areas of interest explored by both the writers of Fringe and the writers of the essays: humanity, duality, genre and viewership.

Author : Tanya R. Cochran
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616590
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multiple Worlds of Fringe written by Tanya R. Cochran and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With diverse contributions from scholars in English literature, psychology, and film and television studies, this collection of essays contextualizes Fringe as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology transforms our humanity. In compiling this collection, the editors sought material as multifaceted as the series itself, devoting sections to specific areas of interest explored by both the writers of Fringe and the writers of the essays: humanity, duality, genre and viewership.

Author : Sarah Clarke Stuart
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770410511
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Looking Glass written by Sarah Clarke Stuart and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Looking Glass, an analytical guide for Fringe viewers and science fiction fans in general, explores the influence of these traditions on Fringe. It also reveals how the show reflects - and sometimes critiques - the society from which it emerges. Along with many other post-9/11 television shows, Fringe has demonstrated the West's collective paranoia about foreign invaders and domestic corruption. It also lays bare the spread of radical advances in technology and urges its viewers to ponder the ethical limitations of science.

Author : Ashley Lynn Carlson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497734
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genius on Television written by Ashley Lynn Carlson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's Sherlock Holmes solving crimes or Sheldon and Leonard geeking out over sci-fi, geniuses are central figures on many of television's most popular series. They are often enigmatic, displaying superhuman intellect while struggling with mundane aspects of daily life. This collection of new essays explores why TV geniuses fascinate us and how they shape our perceptions of what it means to be highly intelligent. Examining series like Criminal Minds, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Elementary, Fringe, House, The Mentalist, Monk, Sherlock, Leverage and others, scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss how television both reflects and informs our cultural understanding of genius.

Author : Margaret Wertheim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802778739
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics on the Fringe written by Margaret Wertheim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard,-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative power of his theories and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade. Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.

Author : Kevin R. Grazier
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1935618687
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fringe Science written by Kevin R. Grazier and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 7 million viewers are captivated weekly by Fringe, a science fiction procedural in the best tradition of The X-Files with a taut central mythology, rich characters, and it's own laboratory cow. In its weekly cases and its overarching plot, Fringe strikes a compelling balance between the strange and the familiar, and the quirky and the tragic. Fringe Science delves into the science, science fiction, and pseudoscience of Fringe with a collection of essays by science and science fiction writers on everything from alternate universes to time travel to genetically targeted toxins, as well as discussions on the show's moral philosophy and the consequences of playing God.

Author : Christa Faust
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781163103
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox (Novel #1) written by Christa Faust and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed Fringe explores new cases with endless impossibilities. Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division started when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist Walter Bishop and his globe-trotting, jack-of-all-trades son, Peter, to help in investigations that defy all human logic - and the laws of nature. The first in an all-new series of tie-in novels!

Author : William Hunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634300
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil and Many Worlds written by William Hunt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Evil and Many Worlds: A Free-Will Theodicy, William Hunt presents a unique approach to explaining how God and evil can coexist despite the abundance of moral and natural evils blighting our world, which imply that an omnibenevolent God is unlikely to exist. This theodicy is based upon Huw Everett III's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, whereby reality is not what it intuitively seems; instead, it is a multiverse comprising a vast number of universes, and we simultaneously exist in many of them. This multiplicity of existence results in a balance of moral good and evil across the multiverse, and through this, the expression of free will—an attribute valued by both persons and God— flourishes. The theodicy explains the coexistence of God and natural evil through the necessity of an evolutionary process that ensures the emergence of free-willed persons. Notwithstanding this universal perspective of Creation, a resurrection possibility would mitigate individual suffering resulting from this divine holistic strategy. Hunt examines this possibility in light of the many-worlds interpretation.

Author : Carlos Montemayor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440824X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time's Urgency written by Carlos Montemayor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique contemporary perspective on the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open paths for new approaches regarding narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times.

Author : Wendy Sterba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144226991X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon written by Wendy Sterba and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are two of the most imaginative and accomplished men in Hollywood. As writers, directors, producers, and series creators, their credits have straddled the mediums of television and film and range across several genres, from science fiction and horror to action and drama. In addition to spearheading original projects like Lost and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each has also made his mark on some of the most successful franchises in popular culture—from Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and Star Wars (Abrams) to Alien and the Avengers (Whedon). Their output—both oddly similar and yet also wildly different—stand at the heart of twenty-first century film and television. In J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon, Wendy Sterba compares the parallel careers in film and television of these creative masterminds—pitting one against the other in a light-hearted competition. With in-depth discussions of their works, the author seeks to determine who is the Spielberg (or perhaps the Lucas) of the twenty-first century. The author looks back upon the beginnings of both men’s careers—to Whedon’s stint as a writer on Roseanne to Abrams’ early scripts for films like Regarding Henry—and forward to their most recent blockbusters, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This books also looks at non-fantasy successes (Abrams series Felicity; Whedon’s adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing), as well as commercial failures. At the heart of this study, however, is a tour of their genre-defining hits: Alias and Buffy, Lost and Angel, Super 8 and Serenity along with Whedon’s Avengers films, and Abrams’ rebooted Star Trek adventures. Filled with sharp-eyed analysis, illuminating anecdotes, and unexpected connections, J.J. Abrams vs.Joss Whedon will appeal to fans of either (or both!) of its subjects, and to any fan of well-told tales of the fantastic, on screens large or small.