| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 225 pages) |
| Series |
Science fiction television |
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Science fiction television
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| Contents |
Introduction: fantasy is his business, but it is not his purpose: an introduction to Joss Whedon and his storytelling / Alyson R. Buckman -- Self and Identity. "'I've watched you build yourself from scratch": the assemblage of Echo / Michael Starr -- "We are not just human anymore": accepting the posthuman future / Meg Saint Clair Pearson -- Anamnesis, hypomnesis, and the failure of the posthuman in Whedon's Dollhouse / Margo Collins -- Ethics. "What about the laws?" regulation and the celebration of resistance / Tom Garbett -- Somebody's Asian on tv: Sierra/Priya and the politics of representation / Ananya Mukherjea -- "In my house and therefore in my care": transgressive mothering, abuse, and embodiment / Samira Nadkarni -- "I possess the means to satisfy my vagaries": what motivates the Dollhouse clients? / Heather M. Porter and Sherry Ginn -- Structure and form. "Who did they make me this time?": viewing pleasure and horror / Bronwen Calvert -- "I love him, is that real?" interrogating romance through Victor and Sierra / Lorna Jowett -- The theatre of the self: repetitious and reflective practices of person and place / Joel Hawkes -- "We're lost. we are not gone": critical dystopia and the politics of radical hope / Derrick King -- Welcome to the Dollhouse: reading its opening title sequences / David Kociemba -- Ritual, rebirth, and the rising tide: water and the transcendent self / Ian G. Klein |
| Summary |
This collection of essays contextualizes Joss Whedon's Dollhouse as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology invariably transforms our identity and perhaps even our humanity. Together, these essays provide a provocative meditation on how one example of science fiction comments on the state of personal identity in a 21st-century society dependent on forms of technology that threaten the individual. This collection of essays examines the various characters and themes presented in the series throughout its two-year run on television. In addition, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Whedon, Joss, 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Whedon, Joss, 1964- fast (OCoLC)fst00346242 |
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Dollhouse (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010073169
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| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ginn, Sherry, editor
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Buckman, Alyson R., editor
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Porter, Heather M., editor
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| LC no. |
2021676874 |
| ISBN |
9781442233133 |
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1442233133 |
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1306798639 |
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9781306798631 |
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