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Star Trek and History - Race-Ing toward a White Future (Paperback, New)
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Star Trek and History - Race-Ing toward a White Future (Paperback, New)
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"An original and insightful exploration of a major component of
contemporary American culture." -H. Bruce Franklin, author ofWar
Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination "Bernardi
boldly goes where no scholar has gone before and discovers racial
anxiety at the center of the Star Trek story. This careful reading
of commercial culture's quintessential mega-text provides
invaluable insight into how mass media productions help shape us
into the people we are." -George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages
"Bernardi's thoughtful and provocative analysis of race in Star
Trek is wholly original; it challenges viewers to see the series in
a new light, and challenges its creators to be more mindful of the
implicit messages in their work." -Rene Echevarria, co-supervising
producer, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Daniel Bernardi has dissected
the history of a myth. If we are ever to track down and expose our
semi-conscious racist evasions and dissemblings, we need more books
like this one." -Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University "I would
have sworn that there was little new any scholar could say about
Star Trek. I was wrong. Bernardi opens up a rich new set of issues
for scholarly examination, centering around the contradictory
expression of race within the series and the fan culture that
surrounds us. His analysis is bold, provocative, and challenging,
yet consistently fair-minded. He combines a fan's detailed
knowledge of the program's universe with the theoretical
sophistication necessary to make this book a cutting-edge
contribution to the cultural studies of race." -Henry Jenkins,
author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory
Culture Star Trek and History examines the representational and
narrative functions of race in Star Trek and explores how the
meaning of race in the science fiction series has been facilitated
and constrained by creative and network decision-making, by genre,
by intertextuality, and by the audience. The author interprets how
the changing social and political movements of the times have
influenced the production and meaning of Trek texts and the ways in
which the ongoing series negotiated and reflected these turbulent
histories. Most significantly, he tells us why is it important for
readers to better understand the articulation of race in this
enduring icon of American popular culture. Daniel Leonard Bernardi
is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and
Television at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the
editor of The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of United
States Cinema.
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