"You Can Be More": Farscape, Melodrama, and Space Opera Revisited.
The science fiction television series Farscape (Syfy, 1999-2003) was notable f or its subversive blend of science fiction and soap opera conventions, which allowed the series to present as a complex study of gender and sexuality. However, small but overt elements serve to undermine the subtler femin...
| Publicado en: | MOSF Journal of Science Fiction Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 84 - 96 |
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Museum of Science Fiction
Nov2019
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