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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• 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