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Race in Space
Michael C. Pounds
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Description for Race in Space
Hardback. This text explores the relationship between "Star Trek" and ethnic equality, one of America's most enduring social issues. Using two television series, this book determines the extent to which social attitudes, values, and beliefs about ethnicity have changed during the intervening 20 years. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between "Star Trek" and ethnic equality, one of America's most enduring social issues. Using two television series formed around a common vision and produced by the same studio and executive producer (Gene Roddenberry), Race in Space determines the extent to which social attitudes, values, and beliefs about ethnicity have changed during the more than twenty years that separate them. The book begins by examining the history of American television, both as a business and a social institution faced with confronting the civil rights ... Read more
Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between "Star Trek" and ethnic equality, one of America's most enduring social issues. Using two television series formed around a common vision and produced by the same studio and executive producer (Gene Roddenberry), Race in Space determines the extent to which social attitudes, values, and beliefs about ethnicity have changed during the more than twenty years that separate them. The book begins by examining the history of American television, both as a business and a social institution faced with confronting the civil rights ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810833227
SKU
V9780810833227
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About Michael C. Pounds
Micheal C. Pounds is Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at California State University-Long Beach.
Reviews for Race in Space
The value of Race in Space is that the author remembers and takes into account the campaign racial minorities waged to create fully dimensional portraits of themselves within the dominant media. In doing so Pounds presents a history that is all too often overlooked by critics who ignore the social history behind television production in the 1960s...Pounds' coverage of the ... Read more