Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Exploring the Next Frontier: Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History book cover

1st Edition

Exploring the Next Frontier Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History

By Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Copyright 2016
256 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more

1. Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos  2. Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained: A Mythography of the Lost Frontier  3. Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth  4. Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma: NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into Logos  5. The Rejection of Paradise: Star Trek and the Final Frontier  6. The High Frontier of Gerard K. O’Neill: An Endless Frontier Utopia in Orbit  7. Conclusion: A Continuing Mythic Significance

Biography

Matthew Wilhelm Kapell holds Master’s degrees in History and Anthropology and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Swansea University (UK). He has taught those disciplines as well as Film at multiple universities. Previous work includes books in Film and Digital Games and journal articles in African, Urban, and Utopian Studies.

Add to Cart