1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men($27.49Value)

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The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television. "From nostalgic views of space adventure to the cultural importance of 1950s sf TV series, Miller and Van Riper's anthology is an informative read and a much-needed work on an often-overlooked period in television history. Understanding the cultural impact of these series - and the symbols of heroism and Americana contained within them - is an important step in learning why we care at all about sf media and the affective relationship we share with the genre.' - Science Fiction Studies "A significant contribution to our understanding of sf in the 1950s." - Foundation Cynthia J. Miller is a cultural anthropologist specializing in visual media. She teaches in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and Emerson College, and is Director of Communication for the Center for the Study of Film and History at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, as well as serving as film review editor for the Center's journal, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies . She is the editor of Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary, From Big Screen to Small and has guest-edited themed issues of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities and Film & History (with A. Bowdoin Van Riper). A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. His publications include Science and Popular Culture: A Reference Guide (2002); Imagining Flight: Aviation and the Popular Imagination (2003) and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011). He was guest-editor, with Cynthia J. Miller, of a special two-issue themed volume of Film & History ('Images of Science and Technology in Film') and is the editor of Learning From Mickey, Donald, and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films (2011). Miller and Van Riper are also co-editors of the collection Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (2012). Used Book in Good Condition