Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier write by Amy H. Sturgis. This book was released on 2023-05-09. Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After more than 55 years of transmedia storytelling, 'Star Trek' is a global phenomenon that has never been more successful than it is today. 'Star Trek' fandom is worldwide, time tested, and growing, and academic interest in the franchise, both inside and outside of the classroom, is high; at the moment, more 'Star Trek' works are underway or in development simultaneously than at any other moment in history. Unlike works that focus on a limited number of stories/media in this franchise or only offer one expert’s or discipline’s insights, this accessible and multidisciplinary anthology includes analyses from a wide range of scholars and explores 'Star Trek' from its debut in 1966 to its current incarnations, considers its implications for and collaborations with fandom, and trace its ideas and meanings across series, media, and time. 'Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier' will undoubtedly speak to academics in the field, students in the classroom, and informed lay readers and fans.
Star Trek as Myth
Star Trek as Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Star Trek as Myth write by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. This book was released on 2010-03-16. Star Trek as Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "Primitive" or the "Other." More recently, myth has been increasingly employed in movies and in television productions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Star Trek television and movie franchise. This collection of essays on Star Trek brings together perspectives from scholars in fields including film, anthropology, history, American studies and biblical scholarship. Together the essays examine the symbolism, religious implications, heroic and gender archetypes, and lasting effects of the Star Trek "mythscape."
Exploring the Next Frontier
Exploring the Next Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Next Frontier write by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. This book was released on 2016-02-19. Exploring the Next Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek’s revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context.
Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away write by Emily Strand. This book was released on 2023-09-12. Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is today. More 'Star Wars' works than ever are currently available or in simultaneous development, including live-action and animated series, novels, comics, and merchandise, as well as the feature films for which the franchise is best known. 'Star Wars' fandom is worldwide, time-tested, and growing; academic interest in the franchise, both inside and outside of the classroom, is high. This accessible and multidisciplinary anthology covers topics across the full history of the franchise. With a range of essays by authors whose disciplines run from culture and religious studies to film, feminism, and philology, 'Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away' speaks to academics in the field, students in the classroom, and anyone looking to broaden their understanding and deepen their appreciation for 'Star Wars'.
Space, the Feminist Frontier
Space, the Feminist Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space, the Feminist Frontier write by Jennifer C. Garlen. This book was released on 2024-08-27. Space, the Feminist Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has imagined humanity's future while reflecting its present. Star Trek: The Original Series debuted with three male leads, but in the wake of a Trek renaissance that began with Star Trek: Discovery in 2017, additional series have explored the frontiers of representation, making the present moment ripe for new critical engagement and thoughtful reflection on the narratives that have shaped the journey thus far. Using the lens of feminist criticism and theory, this collection of essays presents a diverse array of academic and fan scholars engaging with the past, present, and future of Star Trek. Contributors consider issues like Klingon marriage, Majel Barrett's legacy, the Bechdel-Wallace test, LGBTQ+ representation, and more. They offer updated readings on legacy characters while also addressing wholly new characters like Michael Burnham, Beckett Mariner, and Adira Tal. Their essays provide some of the first critical examinations of the newest additions to the Trek franchise, including Picard, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.
