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The Emancipation of the Soul
Philipp Kneis
其他書名
Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television
出版Peter Lang, 2010
主題Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Communication StudiesLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking & Speech WritingLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Science Fiction & FantasyPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Television / GeneralPhilosophy / AestheticsPhilosophy / PoliticalPhilosophy / Religious
ISBN36316081799783631608173
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0KA83tzzEBkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.