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Article: American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- April 1, 2005
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American Science Fiction TV--Star-Trek, Stargate, and Beyond
Jan Johnson-Smith
Wesleyan U. Press
215 Long Lane, Middletown, CT 06459
selliott@wesleyan.edu
ISBN 0819567388 $22.95 308+vii pp.
Johnson-Smith, a lecturer in film and TV at an English university, reaches the conclusion that unlike earlier periods of science fiction, "modern American sf fiction is neither utopian or dystopian...it enforces a critique of the Western mythos whilst renegotiating its finer aspects." This Western mythos centers on the desire for exploration. This desire was seen as far back as the Gilgamesh myth of the ancient Babylonians; and it ...