1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans [electronic resource] : Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men /
Miller, Cynthia J.editor.
Riper, A. Bowdoin Van.editor.
The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword: To Infinity and Beyond!; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: When Our Story Began . . .; 1. Where It All Began: The Flash Gordon Serials Roy Kinnard; I Learning to Be Rocketmen; 2. "A Commotion in the Firmament": Tom Corbett and the Lost Boys; 3. Boy's Wonder: Male Teenage Assistants in 1950s Science Fiction Serials and Cold War Masculinity; 4. Girls and "Space Fever"; II Reaching for Tomorrow; 5. Space Fever: From Fantasy to Reality
6. Shooting for the Stars: Captain Video, the Rocket Rangers, and America's Conquest of Space7. Space Opera TV: Seeing the World of Tomorrow; III As Seen on TV; 8. The Sky Is the Limit: Advertising and Consumer Culture in "Rocketman" Television Series of the 1950s; 9. Creating a Sense of Wonder: The Glorious Legacy of Space Opera Toys of the 1950s; 10. Space Patrol : Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television Jean-Noel Bassior; IV Looking at the Earth; 11. Making the Universe Safe for Democracy: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
12. "Justice through Strength and Courage": Captain Midnight and the Military-Industrial Complex13. "To Learn from the Past . . . ": Becoming Cold War Citizens with Captain Z-Ro; Epilogue: The Twenty-First Century and Beyond; 14. Confessions of a C ommando Cody Addict (or, How the Flying Suit Changed My Life); Notes on Contributors; Index
The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television.
Motion pictures and television.
Theater-History.
Civilization-History.
Motion pictures-History.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
Theatre History.
Cultural History.
Media Research.
Film History.
Media Studies.