Fighting for the future: essays on Star trek: discovery

by Mittermeier, Sabrina Spychala, Mareike

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This volume on Star Trek: Discovery brings together eighteen essays and one interview from a variety of disciplines including cultural and media studies, literary studies, history and political science. The essays examine the narratives and production history of the new series while situating it within the larger Star Trek franchise.

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Full title :Fighting for the future : essays on Star trek: discovery / [edited by] Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala.

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Publication Date:2020.

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Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:Liverpool
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:1789627567, 9781789627565
oclc:on1160193850
LC Classification:PN1992.77.S7316
Dewey Decimal:791.45/72

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Unheimlich Star Trek -- Introduction: 'We get to reach for the stars': analyzing Star Trek: Discovery -- 'Boldly going where no series has gone before?' -- Discovery's role within the franchise and its discontents -- Looking in the mirror: the negotiation of franchise identity in Star Trek: Discovery -- A Star Trek about being Star Trek: history, liberalism, and Discovery's cold war roots -- The conscience of the king -- or: Is there in truth no sex and violence? -- These are the voyages? The post-jubilee Trek legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister

'Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change -- modes of storytelling in canon and Fanon -- From series to seriality: Star Trek's mirror universe in the post-network era -- 'Lorca, I'm really gonna miss killing you': the fictional space created by time loop narratives -- Discovery and the form of Victorian periodicals -- To boldly discuss: socio-political discourses in Star Trek: Discovery fanfiction -- 'Infinite diversity in infinite combinations?' -- Negotiating otherness in Star Trek: Discovery -- Afrofuturism, imperialism, and intersectionality

Interview with Dr. Di…

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