Vintage Book Meaning in Star Trek by Karin Blair 1977 popular First Edition Hardcover TV Media Studies Myth in Scifi

Vintage book Meaning in Star Trek by Karin Blair the 1977 first edition hardcover analysis of the original scifi tv series perfect for Trekkies and Media Studies it explores myth and culture, gloriously illustratred by Vincent Cahill with black and white line drawings.

In very, very good vintage condition with only some wear to the dust jacket. No marks, tears or folds.

157 pages, numerous illustrations. Self-published in this first edition by Anima books, which is a title that references the Jungian thought in the book. The book popular is heavy on looking at how Star Trek works with the idea of the other, of alienation and difference and done at a time before television studies became popular.

"Using her background in folklore and psychoanalytic theory, Karin Blair presents Star Trek as a modern myth and roadmap for the future. She centers Mr. Spock, specifically, as a lens for considering difference and the alien. Blair reads Spock as a role model for dismantling binaries and as a bridge between human and alien. In Spock she finds the strong and the sensitive, the familiar and the strange, and much in between. She then extrapolates how we, as real-world humans, might improve. She also looks into the presentation of women and femininity in Star Trek, finding elements both reductive and unique, in the matriarchs and potential love interests."
(https://ca.startrek.com/news/karin-blair-the-spirit-haunting-star-trek-scholarship)