Daniel Leonard Bernardi

Star Trek and History

Race-ing toward a White Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As an enduring American icon, the STAR TREK series represents a utopian future where humans no longer engage in racism, sexism, or capitalism--or does it? STAR TREK AND HISTORY traces the shifting and reforming meaning of race as articulated throughout the STAR TREK television series, feature films, and fan community. 60 illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780813524665
• ISBN-10: 0813524660
• Artikelnr.: 20970179

Autorenporträt

DANIEL L. BERNARDI is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the editor of The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of United States Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

The meaning of race in the generation of Star Trek : where no text has gone
before
The original Star Trek : liberal-humanist projects and diegetic logics
Trek on the silver screen : white future-time as the final frontier
The Next Generation : toward a neoconservative play
Reading race : trekking through cyberspace on STREK-L
Epilogue : resisting the race toward a white future