Channeling the future essays on science fiction and fantasy television /
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: future visions / Lincoln Geraghty
- America's new frontier. Retro landscapes: reorganizing the frontier in Rod Serling's The twilight zone / Van Norris
- Irwin Allen's recycled monsters and escapist voyages / Oscar De Los Santos
- The future just beyond the coat hook: technology, politics, and the postmodern sensibility in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. / Cynthia W. Walker
- British dystopias and utopias. Pulling the strings: Gerry Anderson's Walk from "supermarionation" to "hypermarionation" / David Garland
- Farmers, feminists and dropouts: the disguises of the scientist in British science fiction television in the 1970s / Laurel Forster
- Secret gardens and magical realities: tales of mystery, the English landscape, and English children / Dave Allen
- Fantasy, fetish and the future. There can be only one: Highlander: the series' portrayal of historical and contemporary fantasy / Michael S. Duffy
- Kinky borgs and sexy robots: the fetish, fashion and discipline of Seven of nine / Trudy Barber
- "Welcome to the world of tomorrow!": animating science fictions of the past and present in Futurama / Lincoln Geraghty
- Visions and Revisions. Plastic fantastic? Genre and science/technology/magic in Angel / Lorna Jowett
- Remapping the feminine in Joss Whedon's Firefly / Robert L. Lively
- "Haven't you heard? They look like us now!": realism and metaphor in the new Battlestar Galactica / Dylan Pank and John Caro.