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UNINA9910678243203321 |
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Titolo |
Outer Space and Popular Culture : Influences and Interrelations, Part 3 / / edited by Annette Froehlich |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (103 pages) |
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Collana |
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Southern Space Studies, , 2523-3726 |
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Soggetti |
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Law of the sea |
International law |
Aeronautics - Law and legislation |
Solar system |
Popular culture |
Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space |
Space Physics |
Popular Culture |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Mexican Mars: Narrating Spatial Futures from the Margins -- 2. Jellyfish from Outer Space -- 3. Space travel: Human Cosmic Hitchhiker Concept -- 4. AFRICA: Home of Space Art and Indigenous Astronomy. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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