Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series
- Originaltitel
- „Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series“
- Autor
- Volker Gentejohann
Veröffentlichungen
- Titel
- Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series
- Auflage
- 1. Auflage
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Erschienen in
- Deutschland
- Verlag
- Peter Lang
- Release Datum
- 5. Oktober 2000
- Referenz №
- ISBN 9781556983702
Das Referenzwerk Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series ist ein Buch, dass eine Analyse des kulturellen Hintergrunds der zentralen Themen von Raumschiff Enterprise bietet.
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- Vom Umschlagtext:
Narratives links the currently most popular Literary/Cultural Theory with one of the most successful television productions of all times. The brief opening chapter gives a very concise introduction to the central concepts of postcolonial theory and the methodological background of this subversive reading of Star Trek. A mythology results, which poses the question: does popular culture rest on the same hegemonic discoursive practices as the elitist canon? The book yields compelling insights about the ideological deep-structure of modern mass media by reading the original Star Trek series against the grain instead of taking (post)modern-style entertainment at face value. The blending of Star Trek's narratives and Western historical, political and social reality results in a unique view of the potential for controversy in the opposition of individual perspectives and the claim of ideological value-systems to universal truth(s).
