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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861094103321

Autore

Froehlich Annette

Titolo

Outer Space and Popular Culture : Influences and Interrelations, Part 4 / / edited by Annette Froehlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-51425-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 pages)

Collana

Southern Space Studies, , 2523-3726

Disciplina

306.45

Soggetti

Law of the sea

International law

Aeronautics - Law and legislation

Astronomy

Popular culture

Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space

Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences

Popular Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.