Neo Frontier Spaces In Science Fiction Television

Author : Sebastian J. Müller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649573

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Neo-Frontier Spaces in Science Fiction Television by Sebastian J. Müller Pdf

The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings. TV series have long adapted the frontier myth to outer space and have explored American Wests of the future. This book takes a deeper look at the futuristic frontiers within such series as Star Trek, Firefly, Terra Nova, Defiance and The 100, revealing how they rethink colonialism, the environment, spaces of risk and utopian/dystopian worlds. Harnessing forms of speculation and the post-apocalyptic imagination, these series engage with matters of the present, from the legacies of colonialism to climate change and the increasing integration of humans and technologies. In doing so, these series question in novel ways the very idea of borders and reshape cultural binaries such as Self/Other, wilderness/civilization, city/nature, human/non-human and utopia/dystopia.

Author : Joel Hawkes,Alexander Christie,Tom Nienhuis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031105289

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American Science Fiction Television and Space by Joel Hawkes,Alexander Christie,Tom Nienhuis Pdf

This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.

Author : James Van Hise
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science fiction television programs.
ISBN : 0061054364

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Sci Fi Tv by James Van Hise Pdf

A history of science fiction television covers its most celebrated successes and failures while revealing how the genre shakily began with such programs as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek and rose to galactic proportions. Original.

Author : Jan Johnson-Smith
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819567388

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American Science Fiction TV by Jan Johnson-Smith Pdf

Science fiction TV and the American psyche.

Author : J.P. Telotte
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813138732

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The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader by J.P. Telotte Pdf

“A richly detailed and critically penetrating overview . . . from the plucky adventures of Captain Video to the postmodern paradoxes of The X-Files and Lost.” —Rob Latham, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies Exploring such hits as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost, among others, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years, when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a popularity all its own. J. P. Telotte has assembled a wide-ranging volume rich in theoretical scholarship yet fully accessible to science fiction fans. The book supplies readers with valuable historical context, analyses of essential science fiction series, and an understanding of the key issues in science fiction television.

Author : Paul D. Collins,Phillip D. Collins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663213549

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Invoking the Beyond: by Paul D. Collins,Phillip D. Collins Pdf

The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the “Kantian Rift,” an epistemological barrier between external reality and the mind of the percipient. Arbitrarily proclaimed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, this barrier rendered the world as a terra incognita. Suddenly, the world “out there” was deemed imperceptible and unknowable. In addition to the outer world, the cherished metaphysical certainties of antiquity—the soul, a transcendent order, and God—swiftly evaporated. The way was paved for a new set of modern mythmakers who would populate the world “out there” with their own surrogates for the Divine. Collectively, these surrogates could be referred to as the Beyond because they epistemologically and ontologically overwhelm humanity. In recent years, the Beyond has been invoked by theoreticians, literary figures, intelligence circles, and deep state operatives who share some variant of a technocratic vision for the world. In turn, these mythmakers have either directly or indirectly served elitist interests that have been working toward the establishment of a global government and the creation of a New Man. Their hegemony has been legitimized through the invocation of a wrathful earth goddess, a technological Singularity, a superweapon, and extraterrestrial “gods.” All of these are merely masks for the same counterfeit divinity... the Beyond.

Author : Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher : Berg
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857850768

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American Science Fiction Film and Television by Lincoln Geraghty Pdf

American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the genre, upping the stakes for both technology and apocalypse. From the Cold War through to America's current War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war. The definitive introduction to American science fiction, this is also the first study to analyse SF across both film and TV. Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with critical case studies of key films and television series, including The Day the Earth Stood Still, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, and Battlestar Galactica.

Author : Roger Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fantasy television programs
ISBN : OCLC:1413373782

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Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction by Roger Fulton Pdf

Author : Sherry Ginn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015062528891

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Our Space, Our Place by Sherry Ginn Pdf

In Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television, author Sherry Ginn explores the portrayals of female characters in popular Sci Fi television programs. The programs examined include The X-Files, Babylon 5, Farscape, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, and all five Star Treks. The major female characters on each program are discussed with respect to their quest to establish a sense of identity within their particular universe, as depicted on their series. By using current psychological and feminist theories, Ginn skillfully evaluates each character in terms that best exemplify the search for meaning and identity in women's lives.

Author : Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810869226

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Channeling the Future by Lincoln Geraghty Pdf

Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection of essays that focuses on the disparate visions of the past, present, and future offered by science fiction and fantasy television since the 1950s and that continue into the present day. These essays not only shine new light on often overlooked and forgotten series but also examine the 'look' of science fiction and fantasy television, determining how iconography, location and landscape, special effects, set design, props, and costumes contribute to the creation of future and alternate worlds. Contributors to this volume analyze such classic programs as The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as well as contemporary programs, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Angel, Firefly, Futurama, and the new Battlestar Galactica. These essays provide a much needed look at how science fiction television has had a significant impact on history, culture, and society for the last sixty years.

Author : Rob Latham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199838851

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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction by Rob Latham Pdf

The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse. The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs, the Atomic Era, the Space Race between the US and USSR, organized religion, automation, the military, sexuality, steampunk, and retrofuturism. The final section on worldviews features perspectives on SF's relationship to the gothic, evolution, colonialism, feminism, afrofuturism, utopianism, and posthumanism. Along the way, the Handbook's forty-four original essays cover novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, and Octavia Butler; horror-tinged pulp magazines like Weird Tales; B-movies and classic films that include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Star Wars; mind-bending TV shows like The Twilight Zone and Dr. Who; and popular video games such as Eve Online. Showing how science fiction's unique history and subcultural identity have been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction acknowledges the full range of texts and modalities that make science fiction today less a genre than a way of being in the world.

Author : Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781135228361

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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.

Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780415158763

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An Introduction to Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff Pdf

The author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, virtual reality, and the Internet while addressing the subjects of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, the body, and the international media event that followed the death of Princess Diana.

Author : Max Sexton,Malcolm Cook
Publisher : Science Fiction Television
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1442252693

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Adapting Science Fiction to Television by Max Sexton,Malcolm Cook Pdf

This book looks at the adaptation of science fiction from literary and film sources for television. The authors examine television as having a separate identity and separate aesthetic principles from film and draw appropriate comparisons.

Author : Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349953394

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Imagining Outer Space by Alexander C.T. Geppert Pdf

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.