Living with Star Trek : American Culture and the "Star Trek" Universe.
Başlık:
Living with Star Trek : American Culture and the "Star Trek" Universe.
Yazar:
Geraghty, Lincoln.
ISBN:
9780857714459
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (241 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Living with Star Trek -- Part I: 'Carved from the rock experiences of our daily live': History, Myth and Star Trek's Exemplary Narratives' -- 1. A Look to the Past: Reality and Star Trek's Multiple Histories -- 2. Telling Tales of the Future: Star Trek's Exemplary Narratives -- 3. Creating and Comparing Myth: Star Trek and Star Wars -- 4. 'For we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us': The American Jeremiad and Star Trek's Puritan Legacy -- Part II: A Network of Support: Identification and Emotion in Star Trek Fan Letters -- 5. 'A reason to live': Star Trek's Utopia and Social Change -- 6. Help When Times are Hard: Coping with Trauma through the Star Trek Community -- 7. The Pleasure of the Trek: Confessions of the Self-Improvement and Individualism -- Part III: Fans on Film: Explorations of the Future History and Star Trek Fan Culture -- 8. Poles Apart: Future Time, Deep Space Nine and Enterprise's 'Faith of the Heart' -- 9. 'Oh my God, it's real!': Crossing the Frontiers of Star Trek Fandom in Galaxy Quest -- Epilogue: Bringing the Memory to Life -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
There is a wealth of literature on 'Star Trek', and this book is a welcome and original contribution to it. The book not only sets 'Star Trek' in dialogue with ideas and stories of utopia, community, self-improvement, that are central to American culture and history, but goes further to examine the complex ways in which these are taken up and used by 'ordinary' fans, who engage with 'Star Trek' in complex and significant ways. Lincoln Geraghty explores, for example, 'Star Trek's multiple histories and how 'Star Trek' and the American Jeremiad, one of the nation's foundational texts, refer back to the past to prophesy a better future. He reveals how fans define the series as a blueprint for the solution of such social problems in America as racism and war and shows how they have used the series to cope with personal trauma and such characters as Data and Seven of Nine in moments of personal transformation. This is all in all a revelatory and original book on 'Star Trek' as both tv and cinema.
Notlar:
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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