The Emancipation of the Soul : Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3631608179
ISBN-13
9783631608173
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 2nd, 2010
Print length
154 Pages
Weight
366 grams
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17.10 x 31.40 x 1.40 cms
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Analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: "The X-Files & Millennium", "Babylon 5 & Crusade", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel", "Stargate and Star Trek".
This book analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: The X-Files & Millennium, Babylon 5 & Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Stargate and Star Trek. The central themes are errand into the wilderness, emancipation from larger powers, individual responsibility, prophecy, apocalyptic scenarios, fundamentalism, artificial intelligence, as well as hybridity, gender roles, psychotic narration, and others. The theoretical basis for this work are both a conventional cultural studies perspective as well as memetics, an evolutionary perspective of culture and literature that is utilized in this volume as an approach to studying genre at the example of the five case studies.
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