Channeling the future [ essays on science fiction and fantasy television

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geraghty, Lincoln , 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction: future visions -- 2. America's new frontier. Retro landscapes: reorganizing the frontier in Rod Serling's The twilight zone -- 3. Irwin Allen's recycled monsters and escapist voyages -- 4. The future just beyond the coat hook: technology, politics, and the postmodern sensibility in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. -- 5. British dystopias and utopias. Pulling the strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from "supermarionation" to "hypermarionation" -- 6. Farmers, feminists and dropouts: the disguises of the scientist in British science fiction television in the 1970s -- 7. Secret gardens and magical realities: tales of mystery, the English landscape, and English children -- 8. Fantasy, fetish and the future. There can be only one: Highlander: the series' portrayal of historical and contemporary fantasy -- 9. Kinky borgs and sexy robots: the fetish, fashion and discipline of Seven of nine -- 10. "Welcome to the world of tomorrow!": animating science fictions of the past and present in Futurama / Lincoln Geraghty --Visions and Revisions. Plastic fantastic? Genre and science/technology/magic in Angel -- 11. Remapping the feminine in Joss Whedon's Firefly -- 12. "Haven't you heard? They look like us now!": realism and metaphor in the new Battlestar Galactica 
650 0 |a Fantasy television programs   |x History and criticism 
650 0 |a Science fiction television programs   |x History and criticism 
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