Outer Space and Popular Culture

Influences and Interrelations, Part 4
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-51424-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 131 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Southern Space Studies

Following on from the highly acclaimed Parts 1 to 3, this book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space themes differs in different cultural contexts, and these themes can be used to explore various aspects of the human condition and provide a context for social commentary on politically sensitive issues. With the use of space imagery evolving over the past sixty years of the space age, this is a topic ripe for in-depth exploration. The book also discusses the contrasting visions of space from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the reality of today and analyzes space vehicles and habitats in popular depictions of space from an engineering perspective, exploring how many of those ideas have actually been implemented in practice and why or why not (a case of life imitating art and vice versa). As such, it covers a wide array of relevant and timely topics examining intersections between space and popular culture and offering accounts of space and its effect on culture, language, and storytelling from the southern regions of the world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Froehlich, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Space Law in Movies and Series: A Demonstration and Prediction of its Application and Evolution.- Work in Space: The Changing Image of Space Careers in the TV Series Doctor Who.- “Clear skies but with a chance of satellite debris” – The Space Debris Problem as portrayed in the Movie Gravity: Fact or Fiction?.- COINS4Food: As above so below.