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Outer Space and Popular Culture

Influences and Interrelations, Part 3

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Editors:
  1. Annette Froehlich

    1. University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

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  • Includes the latest insights into the embedding of space in modern popular culture
  • Provides a unique analysis, offering readers an understanding of how space and popular culture intersect
  • Brings together researchers from Africa and Europe, who enrich the publication with their views and experiences

Part of the book series: Southern Space Studies (SOSPST)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Mexican Mars: Narrating Spatial Futures from the Margins

    • Anne Warren Johnson
    Pages 1-15

  3. Jellyfish from Outer Space: Tentacular Creatures and Cosmic Responsibility in Environmental Art and Pop Culture

    • Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Anne Hemkendreis
    Pages 17-32

  4. Space Travel: Human Cosmic Hitchhiker Concept

    • Christoffel Kotze
    Pages 33-65

  5. Africa: Home of Space Art and Indigenous Astronomy

    • Barbara Amelia King
    Pages 67-99
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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 arrayof 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.

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  • University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

    Annette Froehlich

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