Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 278 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857731092
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0857710745
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1441676236
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1848853734
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9780755698059
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9780857731098
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9781848853737
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9780857710741
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9781441676238
Series Statement:
Investigating cult TV
Content:
"The West Wing" or "Generation Kill" in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recurrence? Of all recent television science fiction series, the reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" is the most highly praised and consistently inventive and intelligent. Where the original show was a straightforward space opera, the new one is rich, strange and above all unpredictable. This book covers the new "Battlestar Galactica" from beginning to end, covering all of the show's principal themes from the de
Content:
Of great zeitgeist and bad faith: an introduction to Battlestar Galactica / Jennifer Stoy -- Adama and (Mitochondial) Eve: a foundation myth for White folks / Geoff Ryman -- Frak Me: reproduction, gender, sexuality / Lorna Jowett -- Disco Galactica: futures past and present / Benjamin Halligan -- The military organism: rank, family and obedience in Battlestar Galactica / Roz Kaveney -- Real-imagining terror in Battlestar Galactica: negotiating real and fantasy in Battlestar Galactica's political metaphor / Steven Rawle -- Butch girls, brittle boys and sexy, sexless cylons: some gender problems in Battlestar Galactica / Matthew Jones -- Sci Fi ghettos: Battlestar Galactica and genre aesthetics / Sergio Dias Branco -- The luxury of being simply human: unwritten and rewritten queer histories in Battlestar Galactica / Karen K. Burrows -- Interrogating Galactica; an interview with Jane Espenson Jennifer Stoy and Roz Kaveney -- On the end, decline and fall of television shows / Roz Kaveney -- Appendix: Battlestar Galactica episode guide.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848853737
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Battlestar Galactica London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 ISBN 9781848853737
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755698059
