Star Trek and American Television

Roberta Pearson, Máire Messenger Davies

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Abstract

Focusing on Star Trek as "a television show", to quote William Shatner (Captain Kirk) in an interview with the authors, the authors argue that the program ought to be seen in the context of the changing economic conditions of American television throughout the more than four decades of Star Trek's existence. The book investigates the show from three perspectives: first, the context of production, the history and economics of the series; second, the interrelationships between production workers, drawing on unique interviews with actors, producers and craftworkers; third, it analyses textually, the "story world" and approach to character in Trek as a TV drama. It has a foreword by Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerkeley, Los Angeles, California; London, UK
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Number of pages256
Volumen/a
Editionn/a
ISBN (Electronic)9780520959200
ISBN (Print)9780520276215, 9780520276222
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - Apr 2014

Keywords

  • Star Trek
  • television
  • American television
  • production studies
  • creative industries
  • creativity

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