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This book analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: The X-Files & Millennium, Babylon 5 & Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Stargate and Star Trek. The central themes are errand into the wilderness, emancipation from larger powers, individual responsibility, prophecy, apocalyptic scenarios, fundamentalism, artificial intelligence, as well as hybridity, gender roles, psychotic narration, and others. The theoretical basis for this work are both a conventional cultural studies perspective as well as memetics, an evolutionary perspective of culture and literature that is utilized in this volume as an approach to studying genre at the example of the five case studies.

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Philipp Kneis studied American Studies and History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research concerns American film and television, politics, Native American Studies and aging. Together with Antje Dallmann and Reinhard Isensee he has published Picturing America. Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture (Peter Lang, 2007) and Envisioning American Utopias. Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture (Peter Lang, 2010).

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