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Exploring the Next Frontier - Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History (Paperback)
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Exploring the Next Frontier - Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in American History
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The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as
scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths
themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War exemplified
that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to
illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism.
Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised
versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary
context, through NASA's lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K.
O'Neill's High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the
exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly
discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding
their enduring significance. This model connects NASA's failed
attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek's
revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier
paradise, to O'Neill's desire to realize such a paradise in Earth's
orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of
Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate
them for relevance in the modern academic context.
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