10. HOW THE THEME WAS COVERED
MAIN PLOT
BENDER BECOMES A GOD FIGURE
(SERIOUS SIDE OF RELIGION)
SUB PLOT
FRY SEARCHING FOR BENDER
(LIGHTER SIDE OF RELIGION)
11. THE USE OF INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IN TV
“THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIMULATIONS AND THEIR
ORIGINALS IS NOT SIMPLE OR STRAIGHTFORWARD, AS IT IS
OFTEN INTERTEXTUAL IN NATURE, INVOLVING PLAGIARISM,
QUOTATION, PARODY, AND INTERTEXTUAL HUMOUR.
UMBERTO ECO HAS TERMED THESE PRACTICES „AESTHETICS
OF SERIALITY‟” (NAFICY, 1989)
18. CLOSE READING OF EPISODE
(CLOSE READING
SEGMENT OF VIDEO WILL
BE PLAYED HERE)
19. REFERENCES
“In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?”, by David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp. 38–53
Television Intertextuality and the Discourse of the Nuclear Family.
Naficy, Hamid, Journal of Film and Video, v41 n4 p42-59 Win 1989
The nine billion names of God: the best short stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Charles Clarke, Publisher Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967
„Microcosmic God‟novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (1941), pucblished in Astounding Science Fiction April 1941
"Twilight Zone" The Little People, Original air date, March 30, 1962
The Outer Limits aired (1963 – 1965)
http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Reviews/04Cook_Futurama.html Lucius Cook, ""Hey Sexy Mama, Wanna Kill All Humans?":
Looking Backwards at Futurama, The Greatest SF Show You've Never Seen" published on Locus Online, 2004
The Neoteric Society
Nancie L. Gonzalez
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1970), pp. 1-13
Technology in Society 21 (1999) 387-392 'Nerd theology.' Kevin Kelly