Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television

ISBN-13: 9781481314879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 326 str.

Douglas E. Cowan

Spis treści

• Preface
• Part I. Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
• 1. The Brightness against the Black
• 2. Pinocchio's Galaxy
• Science Fiction and the Question of Transcendence
• 3. First Contact
• Human Exceptionalism in the Calculus of Hope
• 4. "Intellects Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic"
• The War of the Worlds and the Transcendence of Modernity
• Part II: Science Fiction and the Modes of Transcendence
• 5. Heeding the Prophet's Call
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• 6. The von Däniken Paradox
• Stargate SG-1
• 7. All Alone in the Night
• Babylon 5
• 8. So Say We All
• Battlestar Galactica
• 9. The Truth is Out There
• Transcendence and the Neverending Quest
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index