Matthew Kapell

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell is an historian and anthropologist best best known for three edited academic volumes on popular culture, film, and television. The first, is Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. The second is Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics and adds Wilhelm to his name. In 2010 Star Trek as Myth: Essays on Symbol and Archetype at the Final Frontier was published. All of the volumes provide multiple essays by academics and others on different cultural interpretations on the franchises under examination. Kapell has also published a number of essays in the journal Extrapolation, and elsewhere, on speculative fiction in the United States as intellectual history