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  • The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek

    Edited by Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, Stefan Rabitsch ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek offers a synoptic overview of Star Trek, its history, its influence, and the scholarly response to the franchise, as well as possibilities for further study. This volume aims to bridge the fields of science fiction and (trans)media studies, bringing together the many ways in which Star Trek franchising, fandom, storytelling, politics, history, and society have ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Star Trek and the British Age of Sail

    The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films

    by Stefan Rabitsch ...
    Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum...A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after all, also pitched as "Hornblower in space." Star Trek is modeled on the world of the "British Golden ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Fantastic Cities

    American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

    Edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, Stefan L. Brandt ...
    Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert YeatesMetropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Kevin Costner, America's Teacher

    by Edward Janak, Ludovic A. Sourdot, Jerry Ausburn, Mike Borowczak, Andrea C. Burrows, Michelle Chamberlin, William Gombash, Andrew Grunzke, Bradley W. Hart0, Dennis R. Hart1, Tatiana Konrad2, Cathy Leogrande3, Chandra A. Maldonado4, Ashley A. Mattheis5, Pawel Pyrka6, Stefan Rabitsch7 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner's career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Set Phasers to Teach!

    Star Trek in Research and Teaching

    Edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Martin Gabriel, Wilfried Elmenreich, John N.A. Brown ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    For 50 years, Star Trek has been an inspiration to its fans around the world, helping them to dream of a better future. This inspiration has entered our culture and helped to shape much of the technology of the early 21st Century.The contributors to this volume are researchers and teachers in a wide variety of disciplines; from Astrophysics to Ethnology, from English and History to Medicine and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Dangerous Visions and New Worlds

    Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985

    Edited by Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre ...
    Much has been written about the 'long Sixties,' the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Imagining Urban Futures

    Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

    by Carl Abbott ...
    What science fiction can teach us about urban planningCarl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. ... Read more

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  • Mixed-Race Superheroes

    by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Eric L. Berlatsky, Gregory T. Carter, Chris Gavaler, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Nicholas E. Miller, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Jorge J. Santos, Kwasu David Tembo0, Corrine Esther Collins1, Jasmine Mitchell2, Adrienne Resha3 ...
    American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Science Fiction

    by Dr Mark Bould ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores ... Read more

    $36.99 USD