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Popular imagination and identity politics: reading the future in Star Trek: The Next Generation

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dc.contributor.authorAoki, Eric, author
dc.contributor.authorOtt, Brian L., author
dc.contributor.authorWestern States Communication Association, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T07:42:14Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T07:42:14Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionBrian Ott was a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 412-415).
dc.description.abstractThrough an analysis of the popular syndicated television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, this essay begins to theorize the relationship between collective visions of the future and the identity politics of the present. Focusing on the tension between the show's utopian rhetoric of the future and its representational practices with regard to race, gender, and sexuality, it is argued that The Next Generation invites audiences to participate in a shared sense of the future that constrains human agency and (re)produces the current cultural hegemony with regard to identity politics. The closing section calls for critics to continue politicizing mediated images that appeal to popular imagination and to develop and implement a pedagogical practice of counter-imagination.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationOtt, Brian L. and Eric Aoki, Popular Imagination and Identity Politics: Reading the Future in Star Trek: Next Generation. Western Journal of Communication 65, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 392-415.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/60076
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty Publications
dc.rights©2001 Western States Communication Association.
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dc.subjectidentity politics
dc.subjectfuture
dc.subjectU.S. popular culture
dc.subjectimagination
dc.subjectutopian discourse
dc.titlePopular imagination and identity politics: reading the future in Star Trek: The Next Generation
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