Exam 42: Stagecoach and Firefly: the Journey Into the Unknown in Westerns and Science Fiction, Fred Erisman

In Serenity, ____________________ is the process used to make lifeless planets and moons habitable for human beings.

Apache: Stagecoach :: ________________ : Serenity

Mal Reynolds can be considered a trickster figure because he ______________________________________.

The X-Files reinforces our fundamental vision of ourselves as _____________.

As a reflection of its time and audience, The X-Files storylines emphasize ________.

Many fans of Firefly are attracted to Mal Reynolds' _____________________ political philosophy.

________________________ directed the 1939 classic Western Stagecoach.

"Liminal space" is Victor Turner's term for___________________.

In both Stagecoach and Firefly, the characters coalesce into a type of family called a ___________________ after John Ford's standard grouping of characters in his films.

The ______________________, defined by Carl Jung, can be applied in this chapter to the characters whose journey ultimately brings them to self-realization.

___________________ is the literary term for the hero's journey to hell that ultimately results in valuable self-knowledge.

In Serenity, the Reavers are NOT____________________________________.

In both Stagecoach and Firefly, ____________________ make the choices about the groups they will belong to-a phenomenon explained by Victor Turner.

As a reflection of its time and audience, Star Trek storylines emphasize ________.

As a counterpart to Mal Reynolds, ____________________ is a trickster in Greek mythology because he stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans.

For the characters in both Stagecoach and Firefly, the wilderness is a ___________________.

In Firefly, Captain Mal Reynolds most often represents the values of the __________________.

In this article, "Stagecoach in Space: The Legacy of Firefly," the author highlights the constant tension in _________________ between the good of the individual and the good of the group.

In Serenity, terraforming results in a world on the outer planets that has too few resources for humans. This causes __________.

__________________-one of the most frequent motifs in mythology-forms the basic structure of Stagecoach.