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7.14 - Special Issue: "Battlestar Galactica" rss

Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> Issue”

Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issue”(1)

January 18, 2008

How has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.

Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>

Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.

Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive

Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive

Within the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.

Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki

Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki

Thinking about the wiki as fundamentally generative brings the Battlestar Wiki much closer to fanfic and other the creative endeavors classified traditionally as “female fan initiated.”


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