The Star Trek Universe

Franchising the Final Frontier
Herausgeber: Brode, Douglas; Brode, Shea T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays looks at the spinoffs of Star Trek and examines themes found in and among those various manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781442249851
• ISBN-10: 1442249854
• Artikelnr.: 42138051

Autorenporträt

Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, graphic novelist, film historian, and multi-award-winning journalist. He is the coauthor (with Carol Serling) of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The Official 50th Anniversary Tribute (2009) and coeditor (with Leah Deyneka) of Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars, Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, and Dracula's Daughters. Shea T. Brode has an MA in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University Autonoma in Madrid. Douglas and Shea are the coeditors of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Douglas Brode Chapter One: Supernatural
Trek?: Science Fiction and the Re-Enchantment of the World Murray Leeder
Chapter Two: Holodock History: The Past as Present on the Final Frontier
Cynthia J. Miller and Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter Three: Stark Trek and the
Information Age: How the Franchise Inspired Future Technology Anthony
Rotolo Chapter Four: Forward to the Past: Miscegenation Constructs in the
Star Trek Mythos C. Denise Alessandria Hurd Chapter Five: Science Fiction
as Social Consciousness: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Star Trek: The Next
Generation Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki Chapter Six: Radically Borg? Gender
Identity vs. Narrative Paradigms in Star Trek Tama Leaver Chapter Seven:
Manifest Destiny in Deep Space: New Frontiers, Old Colonialism, and Borg
Assimilation Lynette Russell and Nathan Wolski Chapter Eight: "Resistance
is Futile": Cyborgs and The Borg David Gunkel Chapter Nine: Shakespeare in
Space: Bardolatry in Star Trek Melanie Lörke Chapter Ten: Toward a
Non-Dystopian Future: Romance and Realism in TNG Rebecca Barrileaux Chapter
Eleven: "An Original": TNG and Emersonian Transcendentalism April Selley
Chapter Twelve: Harmonies: Star Trek's Universe and the Galaxy of Gaming
Douglas Brown Chapter Thirteen: The Making of a Star Trek Video Game:
Voyager - Elite Force and Creative Collaboration Brian Pelletier Chapter
Fourteen: Plastic Bodies/Lost Accessories: TNG's Action Figures and the TV
Series Jonathan Alexandratos Chapter Fifteen: Fantastic Licensing: The
Ongoing Mission of Trek Comic Books Stefan Hall Chapter Sixteen: When Times
Are Hard: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters Lincoln Geraghty Chapter
Seventeen: Rebooting Utopia: Re-Imagining Star Trek for Post-9/11 America
Norma Jones  Index About the Editors and Contributors