Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek

The Original Cast Adventures
Herausgeber: Brode, Douglas; Brode, Shea T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays looks at the groundbreaking impact of the original Star Trek series (1966-1969) and the various themes that the show conveyed, not only during its run but in the subsequent film and cartoon versions featuring the original characters and cast members.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781442249875
• ISBN-10: 1442249870
• Artikelnr.: 42137571

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 The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Star Trek: In the Beginning, Roddenberry Said . . .
Douglas Brode
Chapter One - "Wagon Train to the Stars": Star Trek, The Western Frontier,
and American Values
John Wills
Chapter Two - Of Television and the 1960s: Star Trek, Vietnam, and the
Transformation of the United States
H. Bruce Franklin
Chapter Three - Milton and Rodenberry: Structural Parallels between Star
Trek II and Paradise Lost
Shari Hodges Holt
Chapter Four - Boldly Unruly: Star Trek in Play
Scott Duchesne
Chapter Five - Warp Speed: The Physics of Star Trek
Phil Kesten
Chapter Six - From the United States to the Federation of Planets: Star
Trek and the Globalization of American Culture
Lane Crothers
Chapter Seven - Minimalist Interiors/Imagined Exteriors: Spatial Complexity
in the Star Trek Saga
Mervyn Nicholson
Chapter Eight - Decaying Orbits: Men, Women, and Fear of Extinction in TOS
Ina Ray Hark
Chapter 9 - The Matter of Gender in "Metamorphosis": Women, Romance, and
the Queerness of Desire
David Greven
Chapter 10 - Captain Kirk 4-EVER: William Shatner as Romantic Object
Victoria Amador
Chapter 11 - Pragmatism and Meaning: Assessing the Message of TOS
Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith
Chapter 12 - Belief System in TOS: Secular Humanism, Traditional Religion,
and Cultural Imperialism
Sara Boslaugh
Chapter 13 - "What Does a Starship Need With God?": Divinization, Deicde,
and the Re-Affirmation of Faith in Star Trek I-VI
Michael Smith
Chapter 14 - Always Bring Phasers to an Animated Canon Fight: Trek's
Saturday Morning Original Cast Adventures
David S. Silverman
Chapter 15 - The Audience as Ultimate Auteur: Female Fans and Early Trek
'Vidding"
Francesca Coppa
Chapter 16 - Sarek's Tears: Classical Music, Star Trek, and the Exportation
of Culture
Daniel Sheridan
Chapter 17 - Of Authorial Primacy and Literary Adaptation: TOS and William
Shatner's "Captain's Trilogy"
Alexis Finnerty
Index
About the Editors and Contributors