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Star Trek and Star Wars - Couverture rigide

Gonzalez

 
9781433197703: Star Trek and Star Wars
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1433197707 ISBN 13 : 9781433197703
Editeur : Peter Lang, 2022

Synopsis

In Star Trek and Star Wars: The Enlightenment versus the Anti-Enlightenment, George A. Gonzalez shows that these two behemoths of popular culture put the Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment before the viewing public. Star Trek is arguably the popular culture vehicle most reflective of the Enlightenment: a belief in political and social progress, leading to a society that is modern, classless, and totally free of gender and ethnic biases. The Star Wars franchise, meanwhile, is seemingly the artistic embodiment of the anti-Enlightenment: societal progress (to the extent that it occurs) is solely a function of technology and not a perfecting of justice and fairness. Gonzalez shows that this reflects the pessimism and demoralization underlying the Trump phenomenon and the rise of anti-democratic, virulent nationalism.

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À propos de l'auteur

George A. Gonzalez (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1997) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He is the author of Star Trek and Popular Culture: Television at the Frontier of Social and Political Change in the 1960s (also published by Peter Lang).

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Éditeur
Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1433197707
ISBN 13 
9781433197703
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
132
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