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Category: 7.14 – Special Issue: “Battlestar Galactica”

Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issue”

January 18, 2008 Lynne Joyrich / Brown University One comment

How has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.

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Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica

January 17, 2008 Melanie E.S. Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology 2 comments

Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.

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Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive

January 17, 2008 David Bering-Porter / The New School 3 comments

Within the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.

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Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki

January 17, 2008 Sarah Toton / Emory University 7 comments

Thinking about the wiki as fundamentally generative brings the Battlestar Wiki much closer to fanfic and other the creative endeavors classified traditionally as “female fan initiated.”

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Hera Has Six Mommies (A Transmedia Love Story)

December 19, 2007 Julie Levin Russo / Brown University 7 comments

Television is learning that its offspring can be most fruitful when, like Hera, they’re orphaned: disseminated outside their biologically, technologically, and patriarchally authorized families and adopted by their audiences.

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Ownership and Desire: Fans’ and Producers’ Polymorphous Triangulations

December 19, 2007 Anne Kustritz / Independent Scholar 2 comments

Battlestar Galactica’s use and abuse of its viewers’ affections offer one lens for thinking about the way that audiences interact with producers’ intentions and genre conventions in a media environment increasingly characterized by postmodern genre hybridity and convergence.

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Exogenesis: Mind Children and Cultured Images in Battlestar Galactica

December 19, 2007 Alanna Thain / McGill University 2 comments

As cultured images, Cylons both evoke and exceed biological and media technological reproduction alike, a viral infectious non-human form of reproduction.

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Downloads, Copies, and Reboots: Battlestar Galactica and the Changing Terms of TV Genre

December 19, 2007 Bob Rehak / Swarthmore College 7 comments

What’s striking about the many iterations of Galactica is how cleanly the coordinates of its fantasy lure have flipped over time, illustrating the ability of genre myths to reconfigure themselves around new cultural priorities.

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Battlestardom: Conversations with Mary McDonnell

December 19, 2007 Julie Levin Russo / Brown University 11 comments

FlowTV welcomes acclaimed actress Mary McDonnell in this event summary and extended interview about her perspectives on Laura Roslin and Battlestar Galactica.

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New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
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