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Battlestar Galactica : Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel.
Title:
Battlestar Galactica : Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel.
Author:
Kaveney, Roz.
ISBN:
9780857731098
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series:
Investigating Cult TV
Contents:
Contributors -- Of Great Zeitgeist and Bad Faith: An Introduction to Battlestar Galactica -- Adama and (Mitochondrial) Eve: A Foundation Myth for White Folks -- Frak Me: Reproduction, Gender, Sexuality -- Disco Galactica: Futures Past and Present -- The Military Organism: Rank, Family and Obedience in Battlestar Galactica -- Real-imagining Terror in Battlestar Galactica: Negotiating Real and Fantasy in Battlestar Galactica's Political Metaphor -- Butch Girls, Brittle Boys and Sexy, Sexless Cylons: Some Gender Problems in Battlestar Galactica -- Sci-Fi Ghettos: Battlestar Galactica and Genre Aesthetics -- The Luxury of Being Simply Human: Unwritten and Rewritten Queer Histories in Battlestar Galactica -- Interrogating Galactica: An Interview with Jane Espenson -- On the End, Decline and Fall of Television Shows -- Appendix: Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide -- Index - Characters -- Index - Creators and Actors -- Index - Subjects.
Abstract:
The West Wing' or 'Generation Kill' in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recurrence? Of all recent television science fiction series, the reimagined 'Battlestar Galactica' is the most highly praised and consistently inventive and intelligent. Where the original show was a straightforward space opera, the new one is rich, strange and above all unpredictable. This book covers the new 'Battlestar Galactica' from beginning to end, covering all of the show's principal themes from the depiction of sexuality in an era of artificial people and downloaded memories to what it means to be a member of a military organization when the stakes are not victory or defeat but survival. Like all the best shows about the future or the past - we are never sure when all this is supposed to be happening - 'Battlestar Galactica' is a series about the present; chapters here cover its depiction of the post-9.11 world and such issues as abortion and worker's rights. This definitive book on the full new 'Battlestar Galactica' also includes an interview with Jane Espenson, co-executive producer of the show's last seasons and writer/director of the 'Battlestar Galactica' prequel film 'The Plan', with a complete episode guide.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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