Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American MythosPraeger, 1998 - Počet stran: 264
Written to appeal to thoughtful Star Trek viewers, as well as teachers and scholars, Deep Space and Sacred Time examines Trek's humanist creed, with its faith in the human capacity for compassion, growth and self-guidance. Roddenberry's optimistic vision stressed the tolerance of diversity, the central role of friendship and loyalty, an opposition to prejudice, and the rejection of organized religion and divine authority. Employing the framework of contemporary social analysis, authors Jon Wagner and Jan Lundeen reveal the evolving tension between Star Trek's liberalism and its subliminal messages of gender, race and class hegemony; yet they also take issue with the recent wave of critical scholarship that finds only homophobia, sexism, racism, and other oppressive forces dominating the Star Trek mythos. Citing hundreds of examples from the first eight Star Trek feature films and the four television series, the authors consider the ways in which Star Trek invites its audience to explore the nature of the self, the essence of humanity, the construction of gender, the possibility of utopia, and the role of narrative in shaping an intelligible cosmos. |
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... called " festival . ” When Kirk and his companions question what is happening , their hosts perceive that these strangers are " not of the body , " and one of the locals runs off to inform the so - called Lawgivers . Monklike enforcers ...
... called Natural Selection . " 3 More than a century after Darwin penned these words , it would be hard to find a better bare - bones sum- mary of the process of evolution . Biologists have since learned a great deal about the mechanisms ...
... called " brotherhood of man " ( or whatever nongendered phrase we may sub- stitute for it ) is a sham . There is no denying that , historically , humanity has indeed been divided and that partisan interests have been pursued under the ...
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