American science fiction TV : Star Trek, Stargate and beyond
From Star Trek to Farscape and Stargate SG-1, and the epic series Babylon 5, Jan Johnson-Smith shows how, in line with national political upheavals in the 1960s, this vibrant and perplexing genre set about developing the myth of the Western frontier into deep space. Looking at the sense of wonder that infuses science fiction, she traces the genre back to the heroic journeys of the Classical epic as well as to the notion of the sublime so deeply embedded in the American consciousness. Drawing on Caldwell's notion of televisuality, she shows how sfx and cgi technologies have made it possible to
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : illustrations
9781417583645, 9781860648823, 9781282528772, 9786612528774, 9780857710352, 9786000007584, 1417583649, 1860648827, 1282528777, 661252877X, 0857710354, 6000007582
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One. Science Fiction in Context; One. Science Fiction; Two. Histories; Part Two. The Series; Three. Yesterday's Enterprise; Four. The Sacrifice of Angels; Five. Wormhole X-treme!; Six. Babylon 5; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Based on a Ph. D. thesis entitled "Between the Candle and the Star"--Bournemouth University, 2001
English