Futurama. Matt Groening.

Autonorama : the illusory promise of high-tech driving / Peter Norton. by Norton, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Not if but when -- 1. Futurama 1: new horizons -- 2. Futurama 2: magic highways, USA -- 3. …”
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Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder / Adnan Morshed. by Morshed, Adnan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The Aesthetics of Ascension -- Hugh Ferriss and the "Harmonious Development of Man" -- Ascension as Autobiography : Buckminster Fuller and His "Land to Sky, Outward Progression" -- The Master Builder as Superman : Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama -- Epilogue : The God's-Eye Vision.…”
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Media audiences and identity : self-construction in the fan experience / Steve Bailey. by Bailey, Steve, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Media and self-construction: theoretical issues -- Every freak needs a show: polyvalent subjectivity and a local underground film scene -- "I believe in me": self-affirmation in the "kiss army" -- Screen subjects and cyber-subjects: the case of Futurama -- Underground hybridity, popular piety and virtual irony as three modes of mediated selfhood.…”

Enviro-toons : green themes in animated cinema and television / Deidre M. Pike. by Pike, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”

The option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream / Christopher B. Leinberger. by Leinberger, Christopher B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Futurama and the 20th-century American dream -- The rise of drivable sub-urbia -- The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else -- Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better -- Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism -- Achieving the next American dream : leveling the playing field and implementing walkable urbanism.…”
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Modern Marvels. A&E Television Networks, LLC.

Table of Contents: “…Intelligent Transportation Systems (2:35) -- Evolution of Traffic Management (2:55) -- Early Traffic Signals (2:00) -- Evolving Traffic Signals (2:28) -- Uniformity in Signals and Signage (2:17) -- Futurama (2:39) -- U.S. Interstate System (2:54) -- Safer Highway Design (2:08) -- Human Factors Program (2:36) -- Alaska Project (4:00) -- Air Traffic Control (2:06) -- Federal Aviation Agency (2:58) -- Port Piloting (2:33) -- Ship Traffic Control (2:22) -- Future of Surface Traffic (3:11) -- Modern Traffic Control (3:04) -- Credits: Modern Marvels: Traffic (1:00)…”
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Prime time animation : television animation and American culture / edited by Carol A. Stabile and Mark Harrison.

Table of Contents: “…Stabile and Mark Harrison -- "Smarter that the average art form" : animation in the television era / Paul Wells -- The great saturday morning exile : scheduling cartoons on television's periphery in the 1960s / Jason Mittell -- Re-drawing the bottom line / Allen Larson -- The Flintstones to Futurama : networks and prime time animation / Wendy Hilton-Morrow and David T. …”
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Research methods in learning design and technology / edited by Enilda Romero-Hall.

Table of Contents: “…Learning Analytics: The Emerging Research Method for Enhancing Teaching and Learning -- 14. Futurama: Learning Design and Technology Research Methods -- Index…”
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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City : the Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital. by Bennett, Robert

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How television shapes our worldview : media representations of social trends and change / edited by Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan, and Noah J. Springer.

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Viewing 90210 from 12203: affluent tv teens influence a cohort of middle class women / Michelle Napierski-Prancl -- Futurama. The construction of taste: television and American home décor / Stylés I. …”
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How television shapes our worldview : media representations of social trends and change / edited by Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan, and Noah J. Springer.

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Viewing 90210 from 12203: affluent tv teens influence a cohort of middle class women / Michelle Napierski-Prancl -- Futurama. The construction of taste: television and American home décor / Stylés I. …”
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