Popular imagination and identity politics: Reading the future in Star Trek: The next generation

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 392-415

  Ott, Brian L ^a   Aoki, Eric ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035632853     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310109374718     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. 2nd Star Trek family hurled into future. (1987, September 29). Los Angeles Times, p. VII.
2. Alcoff, L. (1988). Cultural feminism vs. poststructuralism: The identity crisis in feminist theory. Signs, 13 (3), 405-436.
3. Anthony, T. (1994, October 10). 'Star Trek' beams up science lesson. Centre Daily Times, p. 7A.
4. Bacon, F. (1997). The advancement of learning: With a brief memoir of the author. Kessinger Publishing.
5. Bacon-Smith, C. (1992). Enterprising women: Television fandom and the creation of popular myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
6. Baczko, B. (1989). Utopian lights: The evolution of the idea of social progress (J. L. Greenberg, Trans.). New York: Paragon House. (Original work published 1978)
7. Bergson, H. (1912). Time and free will: An essay on the immediate data of consciousness. (F. L. Pogson, Trans.). New York: Macmillan. (Original work published 1889)
8. Bergson, H. (1991). Matter and memory. (W. S. Palmer & N. M. Paul, Trans.). New York: Routledge. (Original work published 1908)
9. Bodnar, J. (1992). Remaking America: Public memory, commemoration, and patriotism in the twentieth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
10. Burke, K. (1968). Counter-Statement. Berkeley: University of California Press.
11. Burke, K. (1969a). A grammar of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12. Burke, K. (1969b). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
13. Byrd, M. L. (1998). Multicultural communication and popular culture: Racial and ethnic images in Star Trek. New York: The MacGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
14. Cerone, D. (1992, November 6). 'Star Trek'-Still on the beam. Los Angeles Times, p. B8.
15. Chauncey, G. (1994). Gay New York: Gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books.
16. Coit, D. (1989, January). Star Trek: The continuing saga of a sixties sensation. USA Today: The Magazine of the American Scene, 117 (2524), 88-90.
17. Condit, C. (1991). The rhetorical limits of polysemy. In R. Avery & D. Eason (Eds.), Critical perspectives on media and society (pp. 365-386). New York: Guilford Press.
18. Davis, E. (1993, February 23). Space is the place. Village Voice, pp. 46-47.
19. Dillard, J. M. (1994). Star Trek, "Where no one has gone before," A history in pictures. New York: Pocket Books.
20. Doherty, T. (1989). The Next Generation: Shakedown cruise. Cinefantastique, 19 (3), 30-34.
21. Donlon, B. (1990, November 5). Stranded with TVs best companions. USA Today, p. D3.
22. Dougherty, M., & Alexander, M. (1987, August 31). 1987's stars of the fall. People Weekly, pp. 63-65.
23. Dyer, R. (1999). The role of stereotypes. In P. Marris & S. Thornham (Eds.), Media studies: A reader (2nd ed., pp. 245-251). New York: New York University Press.
24. Fiske, J. (1987). Television culture. New York: Routledge.
25. Flax, J. (1990). Postmodernism and gender relations in feminist theory. In L. Nicholson (Ed.), Feminism/Postmodernism (pp. 39-62). New York: Routledge.
26. Foucault, M. (1986). Of other spaces. Diacritics, 16 (1), 22-27.
27. Ganesh, S. (2000). Mediating the imagination: Corporate involvement in the production of centralized subjectivity. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 24, 67-86.
28. Gibberman, S. (1991). Star Trek: An annotated guide to resources on the development, the phenomenon, the people, the television series, the films, the novels and the recordings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
29. Gillis, J. (Ed.). (1994). Commemorations: The Politics of national identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
30. Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.
31. Goldberg, D. T. (1993). Polluting the body politic. In M. Cross & M. Keith (Eds.), Racism, the city and the state (pp. 45-60). New York, NY: Routledge.
32. Gross, L. (1994). What is wrong with this picture? Lesbian women and gay men on television. In R. Ringer (Ed.), Queer words, queer images: Communication and the construction of homosexuality (pp. 143-158). New York: New York University Press.
33. Grossberg, L., & Treichler, P. (1987). Intersections of power: Criticism, television, gender. Communication, 9, 273-287.
34. Hall, S. (1992). The rediscovery of 'ideology': Return of the repressed in media studies. In M. Gurevitch, T. Bennett, J. Curran, & J. Woollacott (Eds.), Culture, society, and the media (pp. 56-90). New York: Routledge.
35. Hall, S. (1999). Racist ideologies and the media. In P. Marris & S. Thornham (Eds.), Media studies: A reader (2nd ed., pp. 271-282). New York: New York University Press.
36. Hanke, R. (1990). Hegemonic masculinity in thirtysomething. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 7, 231-248.
37. Harrison, T., Projansky, S., Ono, K., & Helford, E. (Eds.). (1996). Enterprise zones: Critical positions on Star Trek. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
38. Heidegger, M. (1992). The concept of time. (W. McNeill, Trans.). Cambridge: Blackwell. (Original work published 1924)
39. Heidegger, M. (1996). Being and time. (J. Stambaugh, Trans.). Albany: State University of New York Press. (Original work published 1927)
40. Hooks, B. (1990). Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston, MA: South End Press.
41. Hooks, B. (1992). Black looks: Race and representation. Boston: South End Press.
42. Hooks, B. (1994). Outlaw culture: Resisting representations. New York: Routledge.
43. Hooks, B. (1996). Reel to real: Race, sex, and class at the movies. New York: Routledge.
44. Humm, M. (1995). The dictionary of feminist theory. Second edition. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
45. Jameson, F. (1982). Progress versus utopia: or, Can we imagine the future? Science Fiction Studies, 9, 147-158.
46. Jones, J. (1992). The accusatory space. In G. Dent (Ed.), Black Popular Culture (pp. 95-98). Seattle, WA: Bay Press.
47. Keith, M., & Cross, M. (1993). Racism and postmodern city. In M. Cross & M. Keith (Eds.), Racism, the city and state (pp. 1-30). New York: Routledge.
48. LeMoncheck, L. (1985). Dehumanizing women: Treating persons as sex objects. New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld Publishers.
49. Martindale, C. (1996). Newspaper stereotypes of African Americans. In P. Lester (Ed.), Images that injure (pp. 21-25). Westport, CT: Praeger.
50. Mason, M. (1993, March 2). Today's problems tomorrow. Christian Science Monitor, pp. 12-13.
51. Merrill, D. (1988, February 6). Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation. TV Guide, p. 39.
52. Mestel, R. (1994, February 26). Education … the final frontier. New Scientist, p. 11.
53. Morson, G. (1981). The boundaries of genre: Dostevsky's Diary of a Writer and the traditions of literary Utopia. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
54. Mulvey, L. (1988). Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. In C. Penley (Ed.), Feminism and film theory (pp. 57-68). New York: Routledge.
55. Nagler, E. (1994, January 23). Analyzing culture through 'Star Trek.' New York Times, p. CN10.
56. Nakayama, T. (1994). Show/Down time: "Race," gender, sexuality, and popular culture. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 11 (2), 162-179.
57. Nemecek, L. (1992). The Star Trek The Next Generation companion. New York: Pocket Books.
58. Nietzsche, F. (1995). Thus spoke Zarathustra: A book for all and none. (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). New York: Modern Library. (Original work published 1891)
59. Nietzsche, F. (1997). Untimely meditations. (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1873-76)
60. Okuda, M., Okuda, D., & Mirek, D. (1994). The Star Trek encyclopedia: A reference guide to the future. New York: Pocket Books.
61. Penley, C. (1997). NASA/TREK: Popular science and sex in America. New York: Verso.
62. Plummer, K. (1992). Speaking its name: Inventing a gay and lesbian studies. In K. Plummer (Ed.), Modern homosexualities: Fragments of lesbian and gay experience (pp. 3-28). London: Routledge.
63. Roemer, K. (Ed.). (1981). America as Utopia. New York: Burt Franklin.
64. Rosenau, P. (1992). Post-modernism and the social sciences: Insights, inroads, and intrusions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
65. Ruppert, P. (1986). Reader in a strange land. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
66. Salamon, J. (1993, February 23). Race men and space men. Village Voice, pp. 46-47.
67. Scholes, R. (1975). Structural fabulation: An essay on fiction of the future. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
68. Siegel, E. (1994, May 27). 'Star Trek' boldly goes. Boston Globe, pp. 33, 42.
69. Silverstein, C. (1981). Man to man: Gay couples in America. New York: Morrow.
70. Simon, R. (1993). Forms of insurgency in the production of popular memories: The Columbus quincentenary and the pedagogy of counter-commemoration. Cultural Studies, 7 (1), 73-88.
71. Sims-Wood, J. (1988). The black female: Mammy, Jemima, Sapphire, and other images. In J. C. Smith (Ed.), Images of blacks in American culture (pp. 235-253). New York: Greenwood Press.
72. Stanley, J. (1987, September 27). Star Trek boldly goes into new series. San Francisco Chronicle, p. Datebook, 45.
73. Taylor Gibbs, J. (1992). Young black males in America: Endangered, embittered, and embattled. In M. Anderson & P. Collins (Eds.), Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Inc.
74. Terry, C. (1987, September 20). Trekkies: The message is still here. Chicago Tribune, pp. 5, 11.
75. Tulloch, J., & Jenkins. (1995). Science fiction audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek. London: Routledge.
76. Vande Berg, L. (1996). Liminality: Worf as metonymic signifier of racial, cultural, and national differences. In T. Harrison, S. Projansky, K. Ono, & E. Helford (Eds.), Enterprise zones: Critical positions on Star Trek (pp. 51-68). Boulder: Westview Press.
77. Warren, N. (1988). From Uncle Tom to Cliff Huxtable, Aunt Jemima to Aunt Nell: Images of blacks on film and television industry. In J. C. Smith (Ed.), Images of blacks in American culture (pp. 51-75). New York: Greenwood Press.
78. Whatley, M. (1991). Raging hormones and powerful cars: The construction of men's sexuality in school sex education and popular adolescent films. In H. Giroux (Ed.), Postmodernism, feminism, and cultural politics (pp. 119-143). New York: State University of New York Press.
79. Wood, J. (Ed.). (1996). Gendered relationships. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.
80. Wu, D. (1993). Understanding Utopian literature. Extrapolation, 34 (3), 230-243.
81. Xing, J. (1998). Asian America through the lens: History, representation & identity. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
82. Young, J. (1993). The texture of memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press.
83. Zelizer, B. (1995). Reading the past against the grain: The shape of memory studies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12, 214-239.