Channeling the future essays on science fiction and fantasy television /
Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection...
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: future visions / Lincoln Geraghty
- America's new frontier. Retro landscapes: reorganizing the frontier in Rod Serling's The twilight zone / Van Norris
- Irwin Allen's recycled monsters and escapist voyages / Oscar De Los Santos
- The future just beyond the coat hook: technology, politics, and the postmodern sensibility in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. / Cynthia W. Walker
- British dystopias and utopias. Pulling the strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from "supermarionation" to "hypermarionation" / David Garland
- Farmers, feminists and dropouts: the disguises of the scientist in British science fiction television in the 1970s / Laurel Forster
- Secret gardens and magical realities: tales of mystery, the English landscape, and English children / Dave Allen
- Fantasy, fetish and the future. There can be only one: Highlander: the series' portrayal of historical and contemporary fantasy / Michael S. Duffy
- Kinky borgs and sexy robots: the fetish, fashion and discipline of Seven of nine / Trudy Barber
- "Welcome to the world of tomorrow!": animating science fictions of the past and present in Futurama / Lincoln Geraghty
- Visions and Revisions. Plastic fantastic? Genre and science/technology/magic in Angel / Lorna Jowett
- Remapping the feminine in Joss Whedon's Firefly / Robert L. Lively
- "Haven't you heard? They look like us now!": realism and metaphor in the new Battlestar Galactica / Dylan Pank and John Caro.