Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics

DK Seitz - Geopolitics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Hollywood science fiction's predilection for Western classical music has been critiqued for
presenting such music as the unrivalled apex of human cultural achievement. Building on …

Prohibition, Contract, and Nomoi for the Future in Star Trek: Picard

K Tranter - The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter engages in a popular jurisprudential reading of Star Trek: Picard season one.
In doing so it showcases how the cultural legal studies approach developed by William P …

Welwala at the Borders: Language, Space, and Power in The Expanse

E Sadrai, M Dando, K Kishimoto, M Barton… - American Science Fiction …, 2023 - Springer
The italicized portions of this dialogue are examples of Belter Creole, a language created by
linguist Nick Farmer for the science fiction (SF) series The Expanse. What makes it stand out …