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This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural,
and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain
(1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.
Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and
disciplinary perspectives, the appeal that the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries hold for twenty-first-century Spanish
audiences, as well as for international viewers who consume these
programs through new media platforms. Themes and issues explored
include: the production of televisual heritage, representations of
period technologies, evolving constructions of gender,
hybridization of television genres, and television as historian.
Expanding the scope of inquiry in Spanish media studies, this
collection seeks to bring Spain into wider discussions of media and
historical representation and visual and material culture in
Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural,
and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain
(1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.
Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and
disciplinary perspectives, the appeal that the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries hold for twenty-first-century Spanish
audiences, as well as for international viewers who consume these
programs through new media platforms. Themes and issues explored
include: the production of televisual heritage, representations of
period technologies, evolving constructions of gender,
hybridization of television genres, and television as historian.
Expanding the scope of inquiry in Spanish media studies, this
collection seeks to bring Spain into wider discussions of media and
historical representation and visual and material culture in
Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
Still on Romulus in pursuit of his goal of reunifying the Vulcans
and Romulans, Spock finds himself in the middle of a massive power
struggle. In the wake of the assassination of the Praetor and the
Senate, the Romulans have cleaved in two. While Empress Donatra has
led her nascent Imperial Romulan State to establish relations with
the Federation, Praetor Tal'aura has guided the original Romulan
Star Empire toward joining the newly formed Typhon Pact. But
numerous factions within the two Romulan nations vie for power and
undivided leadership, and Machiavellian plots unfold as forces
within and without the empires conduct high-stakes political
maneuvers.
Meanwhile, four years after Benjamin Sisko returned from the
Celestial Temple, circumstances have changed, his hopes for a
peaceful life on Bajor with his wife and daughter beginning to slip
away. After temporarily rejoining Starfleet for an
all-hands-on-deck battle against the Borg, he must consider an
offer to have him return for a longer stint. Beset by troubling
events, he seeks spiritual guidance, facing demons new and old,
including difficult memories from his time in the last
Federation-Tzenkethi war.
Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and
every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the
aftermath of "Unity" and in the daring tradition of "Spock's World,
" "The Final Reflection, " and "A Stitch in Time, " the
civilizations most closely tied to "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" can
now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and
intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly
alien.
FERENGINAR: Quark's profit-driven homeworld is rocked with scandal
as shocking allegations involving his brother's first wife, the
mother of Nog, threaten to overthrow Rom as Grand Nagus of the
Ferengi Alliance. Making matters worse, Quark has been recruited by
Rom's political adversaries to join their coup d'etat, with
guarantees of all Quark ever dreamed if they succeed in taking his
brother down. While Ferenginar's future teeters on the edge, the
pregnancy of Rom's current wife, Leeta, takes a difficult turn for
both mother and child.
THE DOMINION: Since its defeat in the war for the Alpha Quadrant,
the Great Link -- the living totality of the shape-shifting
Founders -- has struggled with questions. At its moment of greatest
doubt, its fate, and that of the Dominion itself, is tied to Odo's
investigation of his kind's true motives for sending a hundred
infant changelings out into the galaxy.
As Odo searches for answers and takes a hard look at his past
choices, Taran'atar reaches a turning point in his own quest for
clarity...one from which there may be no going back.
The e-mail Danny and Allison read on their new computer in 1996
looks no different from the millions of others received by Web
users around the world, with one glaring exception--it was sent by
their dads who died during the 1970s. While residing in the
afterworld at an amenity-laden paradise called Midway Manor,
guitar-strumming Mickey Parks and piano-playing Lloyd Wallace
monitor and manipulate the lives of their adult children on earth
from the mid-'70s through the 1990s. Tampering with the facility's
sophisticated computer, the dads thrust Mickey's daughter Allison
and Lloyd's son Danny into a passionate but sometimes stormy
relationship-a relationship steeped in Danny's heavy drinking and
entangled in the often-zany world of men's adventure magazine
publishing. After carefully implementing a plan to send their son
and daughter a gift of knowledge that could enrich their lives
forever, the dads' brief contact is cut short. They are banished to
another destination in the afterworld, but not before they impart
indisputable proof of life after death--and unwittingly put Danny's
and Allison's earthbound lives on the line.
The e-mail Danny and Allison read on their new computer in 1996
looks no different from the millions of others received by Web
users around the world, with one glaring exception--it was sent by
their dads who died during the 1970s. While residing in the
afterworld at an amenity-laden paradise called Midway Manor,
guitar-strumming Mickey Parks and piano-playing Lloyd Wallace
monitor and manipulate the lives of their adult children on earth
from the mid-'70s through the 1990s. Tampering with the facility's
sophisticated computer, the dads thrust Mickey's daughter Allison
and Lloyd's son Danny into a passionate but sometimes stormy
relationship-a relationship steeped in Danny's heavy drinking and
entangled in the often-zany world of men's adventure magazine
publishing. After carefully implementing a plan to send their son
and daughter a gift of knowledge that could enrich their lives
forever, the dads' brief contact is cut short. They are banished to
another destination in the afterworld, but not before they impart
indisputable proof of life after death--and unwittingly put Danny's
and Allison's earthbound lives on the line.
Following immediately on from the events of the 2007 Deep Space
Nineomnibus Twist of Faith, These Haunted Seascontinues the
post-TV-series Star Trek: Deep Space Ninesaga with two major novels
first published in the Mission GammaDS9 mini-series. Twilight:With
the Dominion War behind them, the crew of the USS Defiantjourneys
through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn blazes new trails
into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant. Elsewhere,
political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant gather to determine
the future of Bajor. And as a father and daughter confront their
past, a mother and son are battling for the future. This Gray
Spirit: The war-weary Cardassians send a familiar ambassador to
station Deep Space 9 on a mission of hope, opening up old wounds
and conjuring old ghosts. As tensions on all sides rise, Colonel
Kira Nerys discovers that the line dividing friend from foe is
narrower than she ever imagined. Meanwhile, the crew of the damaged
starship Defiantforges an uneasy alliance with a mysterious alien
species, one whose unusual biological makeup is the key to power in
that region of the galaxy. As the crew becomes ensnared in a web of
deceit, they must also struggle to stave off a genocidal war.
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