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Titre(s) : Spacefarers [Texte imprimé] : images of astronauts and cosmonauts in the heroic era of spaceflight / edited by Michael J. Neufeld
Publication : Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian institution scholarly press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IV-256 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
Lien à la collection : Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
Note(s) : "This volume had its origins in a conference held at the Headquarters of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D.C. in April 2011. 1961/1981:
Key Moments in Human Spaceflight commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the first
human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the thirtieth anniversary
of the first Space Shuttle launch, which took place exactly twenty years after Yuri
Gagarin's pioneering orbit on 12 April 1961. This book, however, does not present
most of the papers that were given, nor are all the chapters based on papers read
at the conference."--Introduction. - Bibliogr. p. 229-238. Index
Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical,
programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s to the 1980s,
but work is only beginning on the social and cultural history of the pioneering era.
One rapidly developing area of recent scholarship is the examination of the images
of spacefarers in the media, government propaganda and popular culture. How was space
travel imagined in the visual media on the cusp of human spaceflights? How were astronauts
and cosmonauts represented in official and quasi-official media portraits? And how
were those images reproduced and transformed by in the imagination of film-makers,
movie producers, popular writers, and novelists? Spacefarers addresses these questions
with nine contributions from scholars in the field of aerospace history, Russian and
American history, and English literature. These essays are preceded by an introduction
by the editor, who discusses their place in the historiography of spaceflight and
social and cultural history. The book will have potential appeal to a wide variety
of scholars in history, literature and the social sciences and will include a number
of striking visual images
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Neufeld, Michael J. (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Astronautique -- Dans les médias
Astronautique -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey :
629.45 (23e éd.) = Vol spatial de véhicules habités
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781935623199. - ISBN 1935623192 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45765141p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45765141
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Table des matières : Setting the scene for human spaceflights : men into space and the man and the challenge
/ Margaret A. Weitekamp ; "Capsules are swallowed" : the mythology of the pilot
in American spaceflight / Matthew H. Hersch ; Nostalgia for the right stuff : astronauts
and public anxiety about a changing nation / James Spiller ; The 50th jubilee : Yuri
Gagarin in the Soviet and post-Soviet imagination / Andrew Jenks ; Astronauts and
cosmonauts into Frenchmen : understanding space travel through the popular weekly
Paris match / Guillaume de Syon ; They may remake our image of mankind : representations
of cosmonauts and astronauts in Soviet and American propaganda magazines, 1961-1981
/ Trevor S. Rockwell ; Bringing spaceflight down to Earth : astronauts and the IMAX
experience(r) / Valerie Neal ; You've come a long way, maybe : the first six women
astronauts and the media / Jennifer Ross-Nazzal ; Warriors and worriers : risk, masculinity,
and the anxiety of individuality in the literature of American spaceflight / Margaret
Lazarus Dean.
