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'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations': The Multicultural Evolution of Star Trek

'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations': The Multicultural Evolution of Star Trek

Hardcover

Series: American Studies - A Monograph, Book 115

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ISBN10: 3825315576
ISBN13: 9783825315573
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
Published: Jan 6 2004
Pages: 263
Language: English
Since its first appearance on the small screen in 1966, the multimedia franchise Star Trek has attracted an unprecedented fan-following in the U.S. and beyond. For many viewers, it has been Star Trek's ostensible representation of a multicultural utopia that fascinated them. This book seeks to elucidate the semiotics of Star Trek's popular multiculturalism. Engaging Cultural Studies and American Studies theory, the book proceeds from a discussion of Star Trek's self-fashioning as a multicultural 'vision, ' to readings of its changing articulations of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual difference, and concludes with case studies of two fan-communities' creative appropriations of Star Trek's promise of an egalitarian future.

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