The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles printed every year. Very few, however, have looked at Star Trek in terms of the dialectics of humanism and the posthuman, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity. In Drones, Clones and Alpha Babes, Diana Relke sheds light on how the Star Trek narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States, using these as portals to the sociopolitical and sociocultural landscapes of the United States, pre- and post-9/11. From her Canadian perspective, Relke focuses on Star Trek's uniquely American version of liberal humanism, extends it into a broader analysis of ideological features, and avoids a completely positive or negative critique, choosing instead to honour the contradictions inherent in the complexity of the subject.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 157-163
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 791.45/72
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781552383308 1552381641
- LCCN
- PN1992.8.S74
- LCCN Item number
- R46 2006eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xx, 168 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00200936 (OCoLC)74491429 (CaOOCEL)406771
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover -1
- Title Page 3
- Bibliographic Information 4
- Dedication 5
- Contents 7
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 9
- Chapter 1: Modernism/Postmodernism 25
- Chapter 2: Regendering Command 41
- Chapter 3: Phallic Mothers 53
- Chapter 4:Techno-maternalism 69
- Chapter 5: Queen Bees 83
- Chapter 6: Humanism/Transhumanism 97
- Chapter 7: Cyborg Emergence 109
- Chapter 8: Extropia of Borg 121
- Chapter 9: Holographic Love 137
- Chapter 10: Time, the Final Frontier 155
- Afterword 177
- Works Cited 179
- INDEX 187
- Back Cover 193
