Battlestar Galactic and Philosophy
Subtitle: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?
By: edited by Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin.
Contributors: Steiff, Josef.; Tamplin, Tristan D.
Edition: First edition
Series: Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 33
Publisher: Open Court/Carus Publishing
Published: June 18, 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780812696431
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 1978-1979); Galactica 1980 (Television program); Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2003- )
First sentence: "Act of Contrition" was the first script that Bradley Thompson and I wrote for Battlestar Galactica.
Description: "A collection of essays exploring philosophical, political, and cultural themes of the television show Battlestar Galactica"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
$18.95
Printing statement: "First printing: 2008"
Table of contents: label: ix
title: Foreword
pagenum: David Weddle; label: xiii
title: “I Dare You to Watch This Show!”
pagenum: Josef Steiff; label: xviii
title: Acknowledgments; label: 1
title: MODEL ONE: Some Are Programmed to Think They Are Human
pagenum: Ronald D. Moore; label: 3
title: The Narrative Disruptions of Model Eight
pagenum: Daniel Milsky; label: 17
title: Frak-tured Postmodern Lives, Or, How I Found Out I Was a Cylon
pagenum: Paul Booth; label: 29
title: The Avatar and the Ego: Reconciling Ourselves with Videogames
pagenum: Luke Cuddy; label: 39
title: Gothic Anxiety
pagenum: Luke Cuddy; label: 49
title: Am I a Cylon? Self-Knowledge at the Crossroads
pagenum: Luke Cuddy; label: 61
title: MODEL TWO: They Look Like Us Now
pagenum: Ronald D. Moore; label: 63
title: Kiss Me, Now Die!
pagenum: Magali Rennes; label: 77
title: I Frak, Therefor I Am
pagenum: Jennifer Harwood-Smith; label: 87
title: The C-Word: Queering the Cyclons
pagenum: Shira Chess; label: 95
title: I, Cyborg
pagenum: Shana Heinricy; label: 103
title: I am a Cylon
pagenum: Richard Hanley; label: 115
title: MODEL THREE: We Became What We Beheld
pagenum: William “Husker” Adams; label: 117
title: You Can’t Rape a Machine
pagenum: Amy Kind; label: 129
title: Knowing We’re Frakked: Democracy and Bad Decisions
pagenum: Tristan D. Tamplin; label: 143
title: The Razor’s Edge: Galactica, Pegasus and Lakoff
pagenum: Sara Livingston; label: 155
title: Some Cylons are More Equal Than Others
pagenum: Hal Shipman; label: 163
title: They Evolved, but Do They Deserve Consideration?
pagenum: John Scott Gray; label: 171
title: MODEL FOUR: Battlestar Iraqtica
pagenum: Ronald D. Moore; label: 173
title: Playing with Fire Without Getting Burned: Blow-Back Re-Imagined
pagenum: Isabel Pinedo; label: 185
title: The Wretched of New Caprica
pagenum: Dan Dinello; label: 201
title: Choosing Sides: Occupation or Resistance?
pagenum: Ian M. Peters; label: 211
title: Secrets and Lies: Balancing Security and Democracy in the Colonial Fleet
pagenum: Louis Melançon; label: 221
title: Weapons of Mass Salvation
pagenum: Bryan McHenry; label: 233
title: SALTed Popcorn: The Original Battlestar Galactica in Historical Context
pagenum: John Kenneth Muir; label: 247
title: MODEL FIVE: Finding Purpose in the Void
pagenum: Lee “Apollo” Adama; label: 249
title: 33, 34, 35 … The Life of the Limits
pagenum: Jean-Paul Martinon; label: 261
title: Lost in Space? Finding Your Way Without a Map
pagenum: Trudy Milburn; label: 271
title: Free Will, Determinism and Schopenhauer (Oh, My!)
pagenum: Bryan C. Barker; label: 281
title: Living in the Watchtower
pagenum: Christopher Christian; label: 289
title: The Meaning of a Deathless Life
pagenum: David Vessie; label: 301
title: MODEL SIX: Near the End of Our Journey
pagenum: Ronald D. Moore; label: 303
title: Why Your Mormon Neighbor Knows More About This Show Than You Do
pagenum: Ivan Wolfe; label: 317
title: DINO or Dialogic: What Does “Re-Imagined” Really Mean?
pagenum: Richard Berger; label: 329
title: The Real War Between Battlestar Galacticas
pagenum: Richard Berger; label: 337
title: A Dangerous Place for Women
pagenum: Ewan Kirkland; label: 349
title: Eve, Lilith and the Cylon Connection
pagenum: Heather Rolufs; label: 359
title: Dreamers in the Night
pagenum: Heather Rolufs; label: 369
title: Coduction: Cylons, Colonials and Criticism
pagenum: Heather Rolufs; label: 379
title: DOSSIER; label: 381
title: Call Signs; label: 387
title: Decodings; label: 393
title: Lexicon; label: 397
title: Intel; label: 405
title: Other Campaigns (Bibliography); label: 409
title: War Journal (Episode Listing); label: 413
title: The Universe is a Vast and Complex System: Coincidental, Serendipitous Events Are Bound to Occur… (Index)