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# '''Star Trek''' (various readings/analyses: postcolonialism, gender, race and racism, ethnicities, aliens, utopia, other ideologies, narrative structure) | # '''Star Trek''' (various readings/analyses: postcolonialism, gender, race and racism, ethnicities, aliens, utopia, other ideologies, narrative structure) | ||
# '''Star Wars.''' Case study: ''Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' (Geoff/Tanya, Krzywinska, 2000) | # '''Star Wars.''' Case study: ''Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' (Geoff/Tanya, Krzywinska, 2000) | ||
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Also, this might provide enough material for a long and fruitful discussion talking about starships (death stars, borg cubes, star destroyvers, starfleet ships), clothes (uniforms vs. cloaks, body armour), weapons (lightsabers, axes, the sand people/phasors, photon torpedos), droids (protocol droids vs. Data) | Also, this might provide enough material for a long and fruitful discussion talking about starships (death stars, borg cubes, star destroyvers, starfleet ships), clothes (uniforms vs. cloaks, body armour), weapons (lightsabers, axes, the sand people/phasors, photon torpedos), droids (protocol droids vs. Data) | ||
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== Resources == | == Resources == | ||
*Science Fiction in the Information Age: http://tinyurl.com/ysvsk5 | *Science Fiction in the Information Age: http://tinyurl.com/ysvsk5 | ||
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Revision as of 20:07, 23 November 2007
I study history and English Lehramt Gymnasium, 11th semester
Contents
Possible Final Essay Topics
More brainstorming...
SF Genre Theory
- What is Science Fiction?
Star Trek vs. Star Wars
- A comparison of genres taking ST and SW as examples
- Can Star Wars be classified as fantasy? Science Fantasy? Space Opera?
- Why do people (fans) need/use genres? What do they expect from a certain genre? Are genres really that bad?
- How does/does not recent scholarly discussion on genres reflect general views on genres and/or the categorization of media (literature, film etc.)
- How do the views of fans and scholars differ? What do they have in common?
General Overview (very very rough)
Based on scholarly literature...
- The history/origins of sf (Gernsback: Wonderous Stories, H.G. Wells, Poe, Hegel etc.)
- sf media (literature, comics, art, film, cinema, television) (Johnson-Smith, Jan, 2005; King, Geoff/Tanya, Krzywinska, 2000)
- What is sf? (definition by content, Formalism & Realism, defamiliarisation and estrangement, novum, postmodernism, metalinguistics and neologisms, themes, the gothic and the sublime, narrative themes)
- genre theory and Darko Suvin's thought on sf (Suvin, Darko, 1977)
- sf and fantasy? genres, subgenres...???
- Star Trek (various readings/analyses: postcolonialism, gender, race and racism, ethnicities, aliens, utopia, other ideologies, narrative structure)
- Star Wars. Case study: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Geoff/Tanya, Krzywinska, 2000)
My inexhaustable SW/SF genre discussion
Religion/Magic
DS9's story arc is very much focused on Bajoran religion, Sisko's prophetic role, the Dominion wars and other alien forms of religiousness. Similary, though in a much more simply way, Star Wars covers the conflict between good and evil and the Force as the ultimate, "magical", natural religion that somehow is used by good and evil forces. So, one prominent question in this context might be, is the Force a religion and/or straightforward fantastical magic. Additionally, I may verify how DS9 religions work and if those religions involve forms of magic.
- This is indeed an interesting topic - especially as it promises a close analysis and interesting background reading. --Olaf Simons 10:53, 19 November 2007 (CET)
Politics
Star Trek got the Federation and the Prime Directive, Star Wars the Republic, the Empire and a broad range of independent 'kingdoms', 'tribes'. Do SW political systems resemble medieval feudalistic structures?
Technical Devices
Also, this might provide enough material for a long and fruitful discussion talking about starships (death stars, borg cubes, star destroyvers, starfleet ships), clothes (uniforms vs. cloaks, body armour), weapons (lightsabers, axes, the sand people/phasors, photon torpedos), droids (protocol droids vs. Data)
Resources
- Science Fiction in the Information Age: http://tinyurl.com/ysvsk5
- http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
