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Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek : the original cast adventures /

"Featuring a racially diverse cast, trips to exotic planets, and encounters with an array of alien beings, Star Trek opened up new vistas for television. The original series was a modest success-- but the afterlife has been nothing less than a cultural phenomenon. This collection of essays offe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brode, Douglas, 1943- (Editor ), Brode, Shea T., 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "Wagon Train to the Stars": Star Trek, the Western Frontier, and American Values / John Wills
  • 2. Of Television in the 1960s: Star Trek, Vietnam, and the Transformation of the United States / H. Bruce Franklin
  • 3. From Milton to Roddenberry: Structural Parallels between Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Paradise Lost / Shari Hodges Holt
  • 4. Boldly Unruly: Star Trek in Play / Scott Duchesne
  • 5. Warp Speed: The Physics of Star Trek / Philip Kesten
  • 6. From the United States to the Federation of Planets: Star Trek and the Globalization of American Culture / Lane Crothers
  • 7. Minimalist Interiors/Imagined Exteriors: Spatial Complexity in the Star Trek Saga / Mervyn Nicholson
  • 8. Decaying Orbits: Men, Women and Fears of Extinction in Star Trek / Ina Rae Hark
  • 9. "The Matter of Gender": "Metamorphosis," Women, Romance, and the Queerness of Desire / David Greven
  • 10. Captain Kirk 4-Ever: William Shatner As Romantic Object / Victoria Amador
  • 11. Pragmatism and Meaning: Assessing the Message of Star Trek / Owen M. Smith
  • 12. Belief Systems in Star Trek: Secular Humanism, Traditional Religion, and Cultural Imperalism / Sarah Boslaugh
  • 13. "What Does a Starship Want with God?": Divinization, Deicide, and the Reaffirmation of Faith in Star Trek I
  • VI / Michael Smith
  • 14. Always Bring Phasers to an Animated Canon Fight: Saturday Morning's Animated Trek Adventures / David S. Silverman
  • 15. Audience as Auteur: Women, Star Trek, and "Vidding" / Francesca Coppa
  • 16. Sarek's Tears: Classical Music, Star Trek, and the Exportation of Culture / Daniel Sheridan
  • 17. Authorial Primacy and Literary Adaptation: Star Trek and William Shatner's "Captain's Trilogy" / Alexis Finnerty.