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Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell.

Title
Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell.
Publication
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Parker, Martin, 1962-
  • Bell, David, 1965 February 12-
Description
223 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
'Space Travel and Culture' explores the significance of the first Apollo moon landing and how the countless books, films and products associated with factual space fiction had an affect on popular culture and artistic practice, but not social sciences and humanities.
Series Statement
Sociological review monographs
Uniform Title
Sociological review monograph
Alternative Title
Space travel & culture
Subject
  • Astronautics > History
  • Astronautics > Social aspects
  • Astronautics and civilization
  • Astronautics > Political aspects
  • Space tourism
  • Popular culture
  • Ruimtevaart
  • Sociologische aspecten
  • Outer space > Exploration > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : making space / Martin Parker and David Bell -- Checklist : the secret life of Apollo's 'fourth crewmember' / Matthew H. Hersch -- Political history of NASA's space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Brian Woods -- Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Christy Collis -- Cosmos as capitalism's outside / Peter Dickens -- Capitalists in space / Martin Parker -- Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Stevphen Shukaitis -- Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Iina Kohonen -- Archaeology of space exploration / Alice Gorman -- Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Daniel Sage -- Idealized heroes of 'retrotopia' : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Dario Llinares -- Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Darren Jorgensen -- Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Warren Smith.
ISBN
  • 9781405193320
  • 1405193328
LCCN
^^2009013364
OCLC
  • 318100441
  • SCSB-12469377
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library