Mystery Science Theater 3000 - A Cultural History

Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History explores the vast cultural influence of the cult television series, charting how the show’s aesthetics, style of humor, and distribution innovations heralded shifts in popular culture and media production and criticism.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Turn down your lights (where applicable)"
Chapter 1: "There was a guy named Joel" - The KTMA Years
Chapter 2: "They hired a temp by the name of Mike" - The Comedy Central Years
Chapter 3: "Crooooooooooooow! (I'm different!)" - The Sci-Fi Channel Years
Chapter 4: "They watch movies and then make up jokes about them" - The Spinoffs
Chapter 5: "Just another mug in a yellow jumpsuit" - The Netflix Revival and the Gizmoplex
Conclusion: "It's just a show, I should really just relax!"
Appendix: The Little Gold Statue Best-of List: Essential Episodes
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Authors

About the author

Matt Foy, PhD is an associate professor of communication at Upper Iowa University. He studies popular culture at the intersections of rhetorical, cultural, and performance studies. Christopher J. Olson, PhD, is assistant professor of English and digital media at Dickinson State University. An avid MSTie, his books include The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), 100 Greatest Cult Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Films (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Matt Foy, Matt Olson Foy, Christopher J Olson, Olson Christopher J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2024
• EAN: 9781538173480
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7348-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: The Cultural History of Television
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Comedy, Film, TV & radio, Performing arts: comedy, Social and cultural history, Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour, Television: styles and genres, History of Performing Arts, Television Soap Operas