Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who

ISBN-13: 9780415061407 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 308 str.

John Tulloch;Jenkins Henry

Opis

The science fiction series Doctor Who and Star Trek have survived cancellation and continue to attract a huge fan following, with Doctor Who having appeared in nine different guises and Star Trek now approaching its fourth television incarnation. Science Fiction Audiences explores the immense popularity of the two series as multiple sources of meaning and pleasure asking what it is that elicits such strong and active audience responses. Is it their particular intervention into the sci-fi genre? Their expressions of peculiarly American and British national cultures? Their ideologies and visions of the future, or their conceptions of science and technology? Is it simply their complexity, consistency and continuity as entertainment?

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Spis treści

Introduction Section I 1. Beyond the Star Trek Phenomenon: Reconceptualizing the Science Fiction Audience 2. Positioning the SF Audience: Star Trek, Doctor Who and the Texts of Science Fiction 3. The Changing Audiences of Science Fiction Section II 4. `Throwing a Little Bit of Poison into Future Generations': Doctor Who Audiences and Ideology 5. `It's Meant To Be Fantasy': Teenage Audiences and Genre 6. `But Why is Doctor Who So Attractive': Negotiating Ideology and Pleasure 7. `But He's a Time Lord! He's A Time Lord!': Reading Formations, Followers and Fans 8. `We're Only A Speck In The Ocean': The Fans as Powerless Elite Section III 9. `Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations': Genre and Authorship in Star Trek

O autorze

Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch