Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000
Subtitle: critical approaches
By: Edited by Shelley S. Rees
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.; Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780810891401; 9780810891418
Subjects: Mystery science theater 3000
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Rhetoric and the empowered audience of Mystery Science Theater; title: The audio-visual palimpsest: rhetoric, poetics, and heteroglossia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Ben Wetherbee; title: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the restricted universe of popular culture production / Jef Burnham and Joshua Paul Ewalt; title: Down in front!: interpretation, performance, "shadowramma" and the hermeneutics of Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Neal Stidham; title: "My life is a hollow lie": riffing the sexism of the past in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Sean Kennedy; title: Pt. 2. Mystery Science Theater 3000 and genre; title: "Do you even live here?": regionalism, humor and tradition in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Claire Schmidt and Laurel Schmidt; title: How to make robot friends: mocking technophobia and technophilia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Kevin Donnelly; title: Your experiment this week: the attack of Mystery Science Theater and moral imagination (in Color) / John Venecek; title: Pt. 3. Intertextuality and postmodernism in Mystery Science Theater; title: "This isn't Yorick, it's George Goebel": Mystery Science Theater 3000 does Hamlet / Walter C. Metz; title: Mystery Science Theater 3000 as metafilm: postmodern narrative readings / Nathan Shank.