Re: [Marxism] Star Trek

[sandy rankin <srankin12@xxxxxxxxx>]

In case anyone is interested:

Contributors are sought for a proposed essay collection over science fiction

in children's film and television.

It has often been said that science fiction is a literature of ideas.
Through

the use of familiar tropes, such as spaceships, aliens, and ray guns, the
genre

uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on the present--on

current social, cultural, and political ideologies. Likewise, media directed
at

children often focus on advocating or criticizing similar ideologies, often
for a

didactic purpose. It is interesting, then, that so little has been said
about the

joining of these two genres--children's science fiction—particularly when

dealing with the visual media of film and television.



Toward this end, the proposed essay collection "To Infinity and Beyond:

Science Fiction in Children's Film and Television" will attempt to fill this
gap

in scholarship. It will primarily deal with how children's visual media use

science fiction to promote or discourage certain ideologies. However, essays


on other issues dealing with science fiction in children's programming--such
as

the encoding of science fiction tropes in children's media, conversations
between

children's film/TV and adult science fiction, science fictional elements in
other

genres, the growing popularity of science fiction in children's visual
media, etc--

will be considered.



A Few Examples of Possible Topics

Films
Lilo and Stitch
Flubber
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Meet the Robinsons
Monsters vs. Aliens

Television Shows
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Power Rangers (any of its variations)
Dextor's Laboratory
The Jetsons

Specific Characters
Buzz Lightyear (from the Toy Story movies)
Brain (from Pinky and the Brain)
Jimmy Neutron
Stitch from (Lilo and Stitch)

If interested in contributing to the collection, please send your CV and

a 300-500 word abstract to R.C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin

(childrens-scifi@xxxxxxxxxxx) by May 31st. (If a draft of the essay is

already completed, please send it along with the other materials.)

Graduate student submissions are welcome.
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I'm writing about *The Iron Giant*, from a Marxist perspective. If anyone
would
like to email-dialogue about that movie or any other sf "kids" movie/TV,
feel free
to contact me off-list.

Sandy Rankin

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