The Resource Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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The item Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand.
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- Summary
- "The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA's lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O'Neill's High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA's failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek's revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O'Neill's desire to realize such a paradise in Earth's orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos
- Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained : A Mythography of the Lost Frontier
- Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth
- Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma : NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into Logos
- The Rejection of Paradise : Star Trek and the Final Frontier
- The High Frontier of Gerard K. O'Neill : An Endless Frontier Utopia in Orbit
- Conclusion: A Continuing Mythic Significance
- Isbn
- 9781315641911
- Label
- Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history
- Title
- Exploring the next frontier
- Title remainder
- Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
- Subject
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- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- O'Neill, Gerard K
- Since 1900
- Myth -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence
- Star trek (Television program)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Philosophy
- Frontier thesis
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Territorial expansion | Philosophy
- United States -- History -- 1961-1969
- United States -- History -- 1969-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA's lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O'Neill's High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA's failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek's revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O'Neill's desire to realize such a paradise in Earth's orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context"--Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kapell, Matthew,
- Dewey number
- 973.01
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Routledge advances in American history
- Series volume
- 4
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- O'Neill, Gerard K
- United States
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Myth
- Frontier thesis
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Label
- Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos -- Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained : A Mythography of the Lost Frontier -- Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth -- Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma : NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into Logos -- The Rejection of Paradise : Star Trek and the Final Frontier -- The High Frontier of Gerard K. O'Neill : An Endless Frontier Utopia in Orbit -- Conclusion: A Continuing Mythic Significance
- Control code
- ocn934797058
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781315641911
- Lccn
- 2016001642
- Note
- Taylor & Francis
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934797058
- Label
- Exploring the next frontier : Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and utopia in 1960s and 70s American myth and history, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos -- Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained : A Mythography of the Lost Frontier -- Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth -- Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma : NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into Logos -- The Rejection of Paradise : Star Trek and the Final Frontier -- The High Frontier of Gerard K. O'Neill : An Endless Frontier Utopia in Orbit -- Conclusion: A Continuing Mythic Significance
- Control code
- ocn934797058
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781315641911
- Lccn
- 2016001642
- Note
- Taylor & Francis
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934797058
Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Philosophy
- Frontier thesis
- Myth -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- O'Neill, Gerard K
- Since 1900
- Star trek (Television program)
- United States -- History -- 1961-1969
- United States -- History -- 1969-
- United States -- Territorial expansion | Philosophy
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence
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