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Article: American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond.(Book review)
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- Journal of Popular Film & Television
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- March 22, 2008
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AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION TV: STAR TREK, STARGATE AND BEYOND
Jan Johnson-Smith. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2005. 308 pp. $22.95 paper.
In American Science Fiction TV, Jan Johnson-Smith contends that science fiction (SF) has replaced the Western as the preeminent television genre in the United States. Whereas Western programs and their corresponding mythos look into the past and are replete with foreclosed possibilities, SF programs look forward, toward a future of multiple possibilities: some bright, some dark, some uncertain. The Western, represented in art and in mid-twentieth-century U.S. television as a romantic setting that brought forth and sustained ...