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Description:Can you imagine a world without "Star Trek"--without warp drive, phasers, photon torpedoes, tricorders, communicators, and transporters? After six Hollywood movies and twenty-five years of nonstop television presence, "Star Trek" is, indeed, a pervasive cultural phenomenon This is the first critical, scholarly look at the mysteries, hidden meanings, and complex issues of the text known as "Star Trek."Looking at the original Spock-Kirk "Star Trek, " the contributors ask and answer questions such as: What are the cultural conditions surrounding the homoerotic relationship between Kirk and Spock? How does the show depict gender relations while simultaneously recreating the cultural conditions under which women continue to experience sexual aggression and violence? They also explore "Star Trek: The Next Generation, " raising issues such as: Was Data a battlefield on which the struggle for human rights was waged? Did militarism and warring versions of masculinity intersect at Worf?Readers will discover the unique charges of cultural studies scholarship and how it enables us to designate a powerful pop-cultural phenomenon such as "Star Trek" into a legitimate site of study. The thirteen essayists address the very real and necessary topics of hegemony, utopias, militarism, colonialism, gender, violence, race, class, sexuality, and liminality, analyzing individual episodes and overarching themes of "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Their insights on how "Star Trek" affects what we understand our culture to be, how it represents the social and political order, and how it reproduces pleasure and pain in its televisual texts, will fascinate scholars, students, and Trekkers alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. To get started finding Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Can you imagine a world without "Star Trek"--without warp drive, phasers, photon torpedoes, tricorders, communicators, and transporters? After six Hollywood movies and twenty-five years of nonstop television presence, "Star Trek" is, indeed, a pervasive cultural phenomenon This is the first critical, scholarly look at the mysteries, hidden meanings, and complex issues of the text known as "Star Trek."Looking at the original Spock-Kirk "Star Trek, " the contributors ask and answer questions such as: What are the cultural conditions surrounding the homoerotic relationship between Kirk and Spock? How does the show depict gender relations while simultaneously recreating the cultural conditions under which women continue to experience sexual aggression and violence? They also explore "Star Trek: The Next Generation, " raising issues such as: Was Data a battlefield on which the struggle for human rights was waged? Did militarism and warring versions of masculinity intersect at Worf?Readers will discover the unique charges of cultural studies scholarship and how it enables us to designate a powerful pop-cultural phenomenon such as "Star Trek" into a legitimate site of study. The thirteen essayists address the very real and necessary topics of hegemony, utopias, militarism, colonialism, gender, violence, race, class, sexuality, and liminality, analyzing individual episodes and overarching themes of "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Their insights on how "Star Trek" affects what we understand our culture to be, how it represents the social and political order, and how it reproduces pleasure and pain in its televisual texts, will fascinate scholars, students, and Trekkers alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. To get started finding Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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