Title
- Contributions To The Study Of Science Fiction And Fantasy, 0193-6875 ; No. 88
Attribution
Gary WestfahlPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.S35 W44 2000 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This book examines representative works of science fiction, children’s literature, and popular culture to show how these works reflect the process of growing up in a technological world. The book points to similarities among popular culture, science fiction, and children’s literature and demonstrates the relevance of these works to contemporary society. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- 1. How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children
- 2. The Three Lives of Superman - And Everybody Else
- 3. Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys
- 4. Giving Horatio Alger Goosebumps, Or, From Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction
- 5. From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth
- 6. Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek
- 7. Even Better than the Real Thing: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction
- 8. Legends of the Fall: Going Not Particularly Far: Behind the Music
- 9. Hollywood Strikes a Pose: Seven Tales of Triumph, Treachery, and Travail in Old Tinseltown
- 10. In Defense of Stone Tablets: Isaac Asimov Explains Why Science Fiction Is Skeptical about "New Information Technologies"
- 11. Partial Derivatives: Popular Misinterpretations of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine
ISBN
- 0313308470
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