Star Trek as Myth : Essays on Symbol and Archetype at the Final Frontier

Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2010/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 239 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786447244
• DDC分類 791.4575

Full Description

In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "Primitive" or the "Other." More recently, myth has been increasingly employed in movies and in television productions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Star Trek television and movie franchise. This collection of essays on Star Trek brings together perspectives from scholars in fields including film, anthropology, history, American studies and biblical scholarship. Together the essays examine the symbolism, religious implications, heroic and gender archetypes, and lasting effects of the Star Trek "mythscape."

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Introduction: The Significance of the Star Trek Mythos

(Matthew Wilhelm Kapell)     

PART ONE: A PARTIAL CANON OF STAR TREK MYTH CRITICISM

1. Star Trek as Myth and Television as Mythmaker

(Wm. Blake Tyrell)     

2. A Structuralist Appreciation of Star Trek

(Peter J. Claus)     

3. Some Implications of the Mythology in Star Trek

(C. Scott Littleton)     

4. Star Trek: American Dream, Myth and Reality

(Ace G. Pilkington)     

5. Speakers for the Dead: Star Trek, the Holocaust, and the Representation of Atrocity

(Matthew Wilhelm Kapell)     

6. "Every Old Trick Is New Again": Myth in Quotations and the Star Trek Franchise

(Djoymi Baker)     

PART TWO: BOLDLY GOING FORWARD: NEW FRONTIERS OF MYTHIC STAR TREK ANALYSIS

7. Star Trek as American Monomyth

(John Shelton Lawrence)     

8. The Sisko, the Christ: A Comparison of Messiah Figures in the Star Trek Universe and the New Testament

(Jeffery S. Lamp)     

9. Course in Federation Linguistics

(Richard R. Jones)     

10. Evocations and Evasions of Archetypal Lesbian Love in Star Trek: Voyager

(Roger Kaufman)     

11. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Surak: Star Trek: Enterprise, Anti-Catholicism and the Vulcan Reformation

(Jennifer E. Porter)     

12. A Vision of a Time and Place: Spiritual Humanism and the Utopian Impulse

(Bruce Isaacs)     

13. The Kirk Doctrine: The Care and Repair of Archetypal Heroic Leadership in J.J Abrams' Star Trek

(Stephen McVeigh)     

14. Conclusion: The Hero with a Thousand Red Shirts

(Matthew Wilhelm Kapell)     

About the Contributors     

Index