| Description |
1 online resource (156 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Rhetoric and the empowered audience of Mystery Science Theater -- The audio-visual palimpsest: rhetoric, poetics, and heteroglossia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Ben Wetherbee -- Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the restricted universe of popular culture production / Jef Burnham and Joshua Paul Ewalt -- Down in front!: interpretation, performance, "shadowramma" and the hermeneutics of Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Neal Stidham -- "My life is a hollow lie": riffing the sexism of the past in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Sean Kennedy -- pt. 2. Mystery Science Theater 3000 and genre -- "Do you even live here?": regionalism, humor and tradition in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Claire Schmidt and Laurel Schmidt -- How to make robot friends: mocking technophobia and technophilia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Kevin Donnelly -- Your experiment this week: the attack of Mystery Science Theater and moral imagination (in Color) / John Venecek -- pt. 3. Intertextuality and postmodernism in Mystery Science Theater -- "This isn't Yorick, it's George Goebel": Mystery Science Theater 3000 does Hamlet / Walter C. Metz -- Mystery Science Theater 3000 as metafilm: postmodern narrative readings / Nathan Shank. |
| Summary |
"First broadcast in the not too distant past on a television station in Minnesota, Mystery Science Theater 3000 soon grew out of its humble beginnings and found a new home on cable television. This simple show about a man and two robots forced to watch bad movies became a cult classic, and episodes of the series continue to be packaged in DVD collections to this day. In Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000: Critical Approaches, Shelley S. Rees presents a collection of essays that examines the complex relationship between narrative and audience constructed by this baffling but beloved television show. Invoking literary theory, cultural criticism, pedagogy, feminist criticism, humor theory, rhetorical analysis, and film and media studies, these essays affirm the show's narrative and rhetorical intricacy. The first section, Rhetoric and the Empowered Audience, addresses MST3K's function as an exercise in rhetorical resistance. Part Two, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Genre, analyzes MST3K through distinct generic traditions, including humor studies, traditional science fiction tropes, and the B-movie. Finally, the third section addresses postmodern and intertextual readings of the show. By providing an academic treatment of an iconic television phenomenon, these essays argue that Mystery Science Theater 3000 is worthy of serious scholarly attention. Though aimed at a discerning readership of academics, this collection will also appeal to the intellectual nature of the show's well-educated audience"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Mystery science theater 3000.
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Mystery science theater 3000. (OCoLC)fst01384484
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
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| Added Author |
Rees, Shelley S., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading Mystery science theater 3000. Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012 9780810891401 (DLC) 2013003539 (OCoLC)825404181 |
| ISBN |
9780810891418 (electronic bk.) |
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0810891417 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299554276 (electronic bk.) |
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129955427X (electronic bk.) |
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