‘Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations’

The Multicultural Evolution of STAR TREK

by Katja Kanzler

Book cover: ‘Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations’

Extent: 263 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies, Communications, Film, & Media Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 115

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(January 2004)

ISBN: 9783825315573

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $50.00

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Since its first appearance on the small screen in 1966, the multimedia franchise Star Trek has attracted an unprecedented fan-following in the U.S. and beyond. For many viewers, it has been Star Trek’s ostensible representation of a multicultural utopia that fascinated them. This book seeks to elucidate the semiotics of Star Trek’s popular multiculturalism. Engaging Cultural Studies and American Studies theory, the book proceeds from a discussion of Star Trek’s self-fashioning as a multicultural ‘vision,’ to readings of its changing articulations of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual difference, and concludes with case studies of two fan-communities’ creative appropriations of Star Trek’s promise of an egalitarian future.

  • By (author) Katja Kanzler