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Real-world leaders hold the fates of companies, armies, and nations in their hands, but the leaders portrayed in science fiction play for larger stakes. Their decisions determine the survival of species, planets, or reality itself. They tend, therefore, to be larger-than-life characters like Doc Savage, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Captain James T. Kirk. In From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels, Kimberley Yost brings the principles of leadership studies to bear on characters from a quarter-century of classic science fiction television series, examining how their adventures can illuminate the...

The newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology continues to expand access to and serve as a means of cultural production, popular culture is becoming increasingly egalitarian and capable of serving as a vehicle for ideological dissent and social change. These efforts do not happen without leaders or leadership. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture--from literature to film, music to digital culture--and address the ways in which...