Investigating Firefly and Serenity
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Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier(Investigating Cult TV)

Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier(Investigating Cult TV)


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Joss Whedon, probably the first recognised TV auteur, who brought us Buffy and Angel, is also the creator of the remarkable space Western "Firefly" and the major Firefly film "Serenity". "Firefly" ran for twelve hour-long episodes in 2002 before being cancelled by the network. But this premature burial had an extraordinary outcome: the fans - self-named Browncoats - just kept multiplying, buying the dvds, keeping the show alive with blogs, fan fiction, podcasts, their own films, meetings, conferences; their numbers increased when the major Firefly motion picture 'Serenity' was released in 2005.This book is the definitive one on both "Firefly" and "Serenity". It is ambitious, in-depth and comprehensive, covering all aspects, from detailed chapters on scenes and themes, through explorations of the music, the characters, actors and fans. It is written by over 20 of the best US and international Whedon scholars, tv and film critics and writers. It's the must-have book for followers of Whedon and his works and for students of quality and cult tv.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: INVESTIGATING FIREFLY AND SERENITY Introduction by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran, editors Language and Rhetoric 1. Masson, Cynthea ‘But She Was Naked! And All Articulate!’: The Rhetoric of Seduction in Firefly 2. Mandala, Susan Representing the Future: Chinese and Code-Switching in Joss Whedon’s Firefly 3. Buckman, Alyson R. ‘Big Damn Heroes’ and Little Witches: The Male Gaze and Female Language in Joss Whedon’s Firefly Gender 4. Magill, David ‘I Aim to Misbehave’: Masculinities in the ‘Verse 5. Aberdein, Andrew Companions and Socrates: Is Inara a Hetaera? 6. Beadling, Laura The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Gender and Sexuality in 'Firefly' Genre 7. Sutherland, Sharon and Sarah Swan A Post 9/11 Map of Hell: Joss Whedon’s Feminist Space-Western Dystopia 8. Jowett, Lorna Back to the Future: Retrofuturism and Cyberpunk in 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' 9. Money, Mary Alice Firefly’s ‘Out of Gas’ and Genre Echoes Social and Cultural Themes 10. Richardson, Mike and Doug Rabb Reavers and Redskins: Creating the Frontier Savage 11. Bussolini, Jeffrey Geopolitical Implications of 'Serenity' and 'Firefly' Religion and Morality 12. Wilcox, Rhonda V.‘I Do Not Hold to That’: Joss Whedon and Original Sin 13. Erickson, Gregory Humanity in a ‘Space of Nothin’: Morality, Religion, Atheism, and Possibility in 'Firefly' Music 14. Lerner, Neil Music, Race, and Paradoxes of Representation in an Episode of 'Firefly': Jubal Early’s Musical Motif of Barbarism in ‘Objects in Space’ 15. Neal, Christopher The Ballad of Jayne and Marching out of Step: Music and Otherness in the Firefly/Serenity Saga Visuals 16. Maio, Barbara Between Past and Future: Hybrid Design Style on' Firefly' and 'Serenity' 17. Pateman, Matthew Deathly Serious: Mortality, Morality, and the Mise-en-Scène in 'Firefly' and 'Serenity'

About the Author :
Rhonda V. Wilcox, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, USA. founding editor of 'Critical Studies in Television' journal, and coeditor of 'Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies'. She is the author of 'Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (I.B. Tauris, 2005) and the coeditor of 'Fighting the Forces: What's At Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (2002).?Tanya R. Cochran is Assistant Professor of English at Union College in Nebraska. Her publications include a chapter on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' for 'Televising Queer Women' (2007). Currently she chairs the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Popular Culture Association and serves on the editorial board of 'Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy Studies'.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845116545
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Science Fiction on the Frontier
  • ISBN-10: 1845116542
  • Publisher Date: 16 Sep 2008
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Series Title: Investigating Cult TV
  • Width: 138 mm


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