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1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans

Editors: Miller, Cynthia J.; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

DOI: 10.1057/9780230377325

ISBN: 978-1-349-35091-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 16, 2015

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Introduction

Miller, Cynthia J.; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

Pages: 1 –13

[Rocketmen: bold adventurers in space, defenders of democracy, masters of science, icons of Cold War heroism. Each week, they blasted their way into the living rooms, imaginations, and hearts of children in 1950s America, equipped with jet packs, paralyzing ray guns, viewing screens, and other...
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Where It All Began: The Flash Gordon Serials

Kinnard, Roy

Pages: 17 –29

[“The golden age of science fiction,” it’s said, “is twelve.”1 It inspires a sense of wonder well suited to the hearts and minds of youth. This is particularly true of space opera—interplanetary adventure-melodrama layered with tales of outsized heroes, diabolical villains, and aliens from a...
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“A Commotion in the Firmament”: Tom Corbett and the Lost Boys

Tibbetts, John C.

Pages: 33 –52

[The decade of the1950s kicked away gravity for a new postwar generation of baby boomers. Buoyed up on Icarus’ wings, Galileo’s dreams, and Mephistopheles cloak, we flew, as the poet sang, “into that uncharted gulf and abyss where no bird-song or shout of man could follow …”1 Things seemed to be...
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Boy’s Wonder: Male Teenage Assistants in 1950s Science Fiction Serials and Cold War Masculinity

Jacobs, Robert

Pages: 53 –65

[When the rocketmen of the 1950s took to the air(waves), they sought to bring as many young male audience members onboard as they could recruit. Boys were not the sole audience for the series—which, like the pulp magazines and movie serials of the 1930s and ’40s had attracted girls and adults, as...
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Girls and “Space Fever”

Foster, Amy

Pages: 67 –82

[According to historian Brian Horrigan, as televisions were entering the American (white, middle-class) home in the 1950s, popular media began to portray the race for space as the “Promethean struggle for survival.”1 With the appearance of science fiction television series, young American boys...
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Space Fever: From Fantasy to Reality

McCurdy, Howard E.

Pages: 85 –96

[The Earth, at the midpoint of the twentieth century, was such a world. Space travel had not yet begun, and imaginations were free to soar, unencumbered by reality. It was also a time when many families in the United States were purchasing their first television sets. These sets, and the...
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Shooting for the Stars: Captain Video, the Rocket Rangers, and America’s Conquest of Space

Lucanio, Patrick; Coville, Gary

Pages: 97 –113

[In 1899, a boy named Robert Goddard climbed to the furthest reaches of a cherry tree, gazed at the limitless sky, and allowed his sense of wonder to contemplate just what was out there. Just the year before, he had been awestruck by H. G. Wells’ imaginative War of the Worlds (1898) in which...
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Space Opera TV: Seeing the World of Tomorrow

Telotte, J. P.

Pages: 115 –129

[Viewed today, an early television space opera likeCaptainVideo seems far more than quaint. There is almost a surreal dimension to it—or what some might describe as a postmodern tone. For regularly in the midst of an episode involving heroic adventures in space or on other planets, the Captain,...
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The Sky Is the Limit: Advertising and Consumer Culture in “Rocketman” Television Series of the 1950s

Samuel, Lawrence R.

Pages: 133 –148

[How could the makers of a seemingly ordinary breakfast food make such an astounding (and impossible to prove) claim? When spoken by characters like Tom Corbett, Buzz Corry, or Captain Midnight, virtually any product pitch, no matter how farfetched, retained a strong semblance of truth. This...
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Creating a Sense of Wonder: The Glorious Legacy of Space Opera Toys of the 1950s

Young, S. Mark

Pages: 149 –162

[The merchandising mania surroundingStar Warsthat Mel Brooks is refer-ring to in Spaceballs actually has it roots in the space operas of the 1950s. Sandwiched between Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in the 1930s, and Star Trek and Star Wars in the 1960s and 1970s, Tom Corbett, Space Patrol, and...

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