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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Star Trek"”.
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001). Voyager follows the Star Trek tradition of exploring the far reaches of space to advance human knowledge, and in doing so writes Western imperial practices of difference into an idealized future. In chapters 2 through …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… texts such as Gene Roddenberry's television show Star Trek and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey in order to create more effective voice-interactive programs. Such comparisons between present-day technology and past Science Fiction (hereafter, Sci-Fi) texts are even more apt than …
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The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
… an exploration of the latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery. In its most rudimentary form, this is a study of the characteristics of the soundtrack, but intrinsically, it is an investigation into the extratextual narratives which the music conveys – the story the …
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Between the candle and the star.
… of sf on television with series such as Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Dr Who, The X Files, Space: Above and Beyond and Stargate: SG-1. Part Four examines the five-season text of Babylon 5, arguing that in form and content it creates an ideological …
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An enterprise for magic, dragons, and Impalas: An evaluation of parasocial interactions and fan discourse in four genre fandom online discussion forums
… the presence of PSRs in the fandom forums of Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural. Additionally, this study conducted a preliminary content analysis evaluating the use of language to understand how fans are reinterpreting (Rabinowitz, 1985) text during discourse online …
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An enterprise for magic, dragons, and Impalas: An evaluation of parasocial interactions and fan discourse in four genre fandom online discussion forums
… the presence of PSRs in the fandom forums of Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural. Additionally, this study conducted a preliminary content analysis evaluating the use of language to understand how fans are reinterpreting (Rabinowitz, 1985) text during discourse online …
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VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING
… television show Supernatural and the 2009 film Star Trek to understand the ways diverse characters were presented and what types of cultural narratives existed. Then I sampled from seven different vidding communities, collecting a total of 105 vids and 6509 comments on those vids as the second …
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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
… (The Twilight Zone), and “Patterns of Force” (Star Trek); and Serdar Somuncu’s performances/readings of Mein Kampf. The temporal and geographical context of the episodes (1960s America) seem far removed from Somuncu’s performances (1990s/2000s Germany), but analysing the production and effects …
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Concerto for Solo Violin and Chamber Orchestra
… guest-composer and WVU alumnus Jay Chattaway (of Star Trek fame). The piece is continuous but formally divided into three parts. The first section is in a slow to moderate tempo and fluctuates between B minor and B major (with significant chromaticism) and harmonies that never fully resolve until …
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Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction
… can easily be traced back to the early days of Star Trek and fan made "zines," it is now perhaps the most visible and well known fan creation. Fan fiction has evolved from the expansions or reimaginings of the source text to involve the wide-scale participation and communication amongst fans …
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Exploration of sound-based music composition tools and techniques for Hollywood-style science fiction films
… of sound-based music theories will be the starting point for this type of soundtrack. Based on Simon Emmerson’s analytical tool, the language grid a practical application of sounds which are traditionally not considered musical is facilitated. Eventually—and at the minimum—this musical …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… it's the invention of the cell phone inspired by Star Trek (1966-69) or words like "cyberspace" lifted from William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984). By reimagining the future and the past, speculative literature argues it can change the present. Dystopic, utopic, and everything in between has been …
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Shape formation by self-disassembly in programmable matter systems
… in fiction, (Barbapapa, Changelings from Star Trek, the Terminator, and Transformers), and academia, a lack of suitable hardware and accompanying algorithms prevents their full realization. With this thesis research, we aim to create a system of miniature modules that can form arbitrary …