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American science fiction TV : Star Trek, Stargate and beyond /
From Star Trek to Farscape and Stargate SG-1, and the epic series Babylon 5, Jan Johnson-Smith shows how, in line with national political upheavals in the 1960s, this vibrant and perplexing genre set about developing the myth of the Western frontier into deep space. Looking at the sense of wonder th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2005.
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| Colección: | Popular television genres.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From Star Trek to Farscape and Stargate SG-1, and the epic series Babylon 5, Jan Johnson-Smith shows how, in line with national political upheavals in the 1960s, this vibrant and perplexing genre set about developing the myth of the Western frontier into deep space. Looking at the sense of wonder that infuses science fiction, she traces the genre back to the heroic journeys of the Classical epic as well as to the notion of the sublime so deeply embedded in the American consciousness. Drawing on Caldwell's notion of televisuality, she shows how sfx and cgi technologies have made it possible to. |
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| Notas: | Based on a Ph. D. thesis entitled "Between the Candle and the Star"--Bournemouth University, 2001 |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417583649 9781417583645 9781860648823 1860648827 1282528777 9781282528772 9786612528774 661252877X 0857710354 9780857710352 6000007582 9786000007584 |