Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment
Beauty, Justice, and Popular Culture
Summary
Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment also offers a major corrective to the prevailing academic treatment of popular culture, demonstrating that Star Trek and other shows consistently challenge class rule and other forms of oppression based on race, gender, and nationality. In the world of Star Trek, justice is represented by a modern, classless society, totally free of ethnic and gender biases.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Chapter 1 A Philosophy of Entertainment
- Chapter 2 The Cases of Nazi Cinema and the American war in Vietnam
- Chapter 3 The Progressive Politics of 1950s Sci-Fi Movies and Star Trek of the 1960s
- Chapter 4 Star Trek (Original Series) at the Center of the Justice (Values) Revolution of the 1960s
- Chapter 5 Star Trek and the Progressive Dialectic: The Depiction of the Marxist Ontology of Justice
- Chapter 6 The Boys and Justice League Unlimited: The Super Hero as Metaphorical of Global (In)Justice
- Conclusion Popular Culture as Prime Political Terrain in the Struggle for Democracy/Justice
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gonzalez, George A., author.
Title: Star Trek and the philosophy of entertainment: beauty, justice, and popular culture /
George A. Gonzalez.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2023. | Includes bibliographical
references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2023004316 (print) | LCCN 2023004317 (ebook)
| ISBN 9781636671550 (hardback) | ISBN 9781636671567 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781636671574 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Star Trek television programs. | Star Trek films–History
and criticism. | Justice, Administration of, on television. | Justice,
Administration of, in motion pictures. | Popular culture–Philosophy. |
LCGFT: Television criticism and reviews.
Classification: LCC PN1992.8.S74 G655 2023 (print) | LCC PN1992.8.S74
(ebook) | DDC 791.45/75–dc23/eng/20230316
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023004316
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023004317
DOI 10.3726/b20623
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National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data is available
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ISBN 9781636671550 (hardback)
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DOI 10.3726/b20623
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About the author
George A. Gonzalez (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1997) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He is the author of Star Trek and Popular Culture: Television at the Frontier of Social and Political Change in the 1960s, as well as Star Trek and Star Wars: The Enlightenment versus the Anti-Enlightenment (both published by Peter Lang).
About the book
Drawing on Hegel’s model of aesthetics and beauty to analyze the Star Trek franchise, this book puts justice at the center of the “beauty”—and entertainment value—of popular culture. The author, George A. Gonzalez, shows that plot—revolving around justice and injustice—often determines the artistic success and popularity of TV and films. He argues that Star Trek is the most popular franchise in history because it puts the pursuit of justice, and therefore beauty, at the heart of its world.
Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment also offers a major corrective to the prevailing academic treatment of popular culture, demonstrating that Star Trek and other shows consistently challenge class rule and other forms of oppression based on race, gender, and nationality. In the world of Star Trek, justice is represented by a modern, classless society, totally free of ethnic and gender biases.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Contents
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 112
- Publication Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781636671567
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781636671574
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781636671550
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20623
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (October)
- Keywords
- Star Trek popular culture television movies Nazi Cinema anticommunism American conflict in Vietnam President Donald J. Trump politics Georg Hegel Karl Marx Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2023. VIII, 112 pp.
