Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before : : Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV / / Diana Adesola Mafe.

When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (185 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: To Boldly Go
  • 1. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: 28 Days Later
  • 2. Last One Standing: Alien vs. Predator
  • 3. The Black Madonna: Children of Men
  • 4. Thank Heaven for Little Girls: Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • 5. Intergalactic Companions: Firefly and Doctor Who
  • Coda: Final Frontiers
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index