Channeling the future [ essays on science fiction and fantasy television
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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