The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader
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"A richly detailed and critically penetrating overview... from the plucky adventures of Captain Video to the postmodern paradoxes of The X-Files and Lost." -Rob Latham, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies Exploring such hits as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost, among others, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years, when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a popularity all its own. J.P. Telotte has assembled a wide-ranging volume rich in theoretical scholarship yet fully accessible to science fiction fans. The book supplies readers with valuable historical context, analyses of essential science fiction series, and an understanding of the key issues in science fiction television.
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- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Trajectory of Science Fiction Television
- Part I. Background: Lifting Off from the Cultural Pad
- Lost in Space: Television as Science Fiction Icon
- Shadows on the Cathode Ray Tube: Adapting Print Science Fiction for Television
- From Big Screen to Small Box: Adapting Science Fiction Film for Television
- Part II. The Shape of the Ship: Narrative Vehicles and Science Fiction
- Tomorrowland Tv: The Space Opera and Early Science Fiction Television
- Anthology Drama: Mapping The Twilight Zone's Cultural and Mythological Terrain
- Animation, Anime, and the Cultural Logic of Asianization
- Part III. What Fuels These Flights: Some Key Concerns of Science Fiction Television
- "Dreams Teach": (Im)Possible Worlds in Science Fiction Television
- Fraking machines: Desire, Gender, and the (Post)Human Condition in Battlestar Galactica
- Space Vehicles and Traveling companions: Rockets and Living Ships
- Part IV. The Best Sights "Out there": Key Series
- The politics of Star Trek
- Science Fiction Television in the United Kingdom
- Mainstreaming Marginality: Genre, Hybridity, and Postmodernism in The X-Files
- Babylon 5: Our First, Best Hope for Mature Science Fiction Television
- Stargate SG-1 and the Quest for the Perfect Science Fiction Premise
- The Island's Greatest Mystery: Is Lost Science Fiction?
- Part V. The Landing Zone: Where Does Science Fiction Television Go from Here?
- TV Time Lords: Fan Cultures, Narrative Complexity, and the Future of Science Fiction Television
- Further Reading
- Selected Videography
- List of Contributors
- Index
