Channeling the future
Subtitle: essays on science fiction and fantasy television
By: edited by Lincoln Geraghty.
Contributors: Geraghty, Lincoln, 1977-
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.; Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780810866751; 9780810869226
Subjects: Science fiction television programs -- History and criticism; Fantasy television programs -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: future visions / Lincoln Geraghty; title: America's new frontier. Retro landscapes: reorganizing the frontier in Rod Serling's The twilight zone / Van Norris; title: Irwin Allen's recycled monsters and escapist voyages / Oscar De Los Santos; title: The future just beyond the coat hook: technology, politics, and the post-modern sensibility in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. / Cynthia W. Walker; title: British dystopias and utopias. Pulling the strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from "supermarionation" to "hypermarionation" / David Garland; title: Farmers, feminists and drop-outs: the disguises of the scientist in British science fiction television in the 1970s / Laurel Forster; title: Secret gardens and magical realities: tales of mystery, the English landscape and English children / Dave Allen; title: Fantasy, fetish and the future. There can be only one: Highlander: the series' portrayal of historical and  contemporary fantasy / Michael S. Duffy; title: Kinky borgs and sexy robots: the fetish, fashion and discipline of Seven of nine / Trudy Barber; title: "Welcome to the world of tomorrow!": animating science fictions of the past and present in Futurama / Lincoln Geraghty; title: Plastic fantastic? genre and science/technology/magic in Angel / Lorna Jowett; title: Visions and Revisions. Remapping the feminine in Joss Whedon's Firefly / Robert L. Lively; title: "Haven't you heard? They look like us now!": realism and metaphor in the new Battlestar Galactica / Dylan Pank and John Caro.