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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Shelley S. Rees Part I: Rhetoric and the Empowered Audience of Mystery Science Theater Chapter 1 The Audio-Visual Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Poetics, and Heteroglossia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 Ben Wetherbee Chapter 2 Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the Restricted Universe of Popular Culture Production Jef Burnham and Joshua Paul Ewalt Chapter 3 Down in Front!: Interpretation, Performance, “Shadowramma” and the Hermeneutics of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Neal Stidham Chapter 4 “My Life is a Hollow Lie”: Riffing the Sexism of the Past in Mystery Science Theater 3000 Sean Kennedy Part II: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Genre Chapter 5 “Do You Even Live Here?”: Regionalism, Humor and Tradition in Mystery Science Theater 3000 Claire Schmidt and Laurel Schmidt Chapter 6 How to Make Robot Friends: Mocking Technophobia and Technophilia in Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kevin Donnelly Chapter 7 Your Experiment this Week: The Attack of Mystery Science Theater and Moral Imagination (in Color) John Venecek Part III: Intertextuality and Postmodernism in Mystery Science Theater Chapter 8 “This isn’t Yorick, It’s George Goebel”: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Does Hamlet Walter C. Metz Chapter 9 Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Metafilm: Postmodern Narrative Readings Nathan Shank Index About the Contributors About the Editor
