Investigating Firefly and Serenity science fiction on the frontier /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Wilcox, Rhonda, Cochran, Tanya R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.
Series:Investigating cult TV.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Good myth' : Joss Whedon's further worlds / Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran
  • 'They tried to kill us, and here we are' : episode and film guide / Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran
  • 'But she was naked! And all articulate!' : the rhetoric of seduction in Firefly / Cynthea Masson
  • Representing the future : Chinese and codeswitching in Firefly / Susan Mandala
  • 'Much madness is divinest sense' : Firefly's 'big damn heroes' and little witches / Alyson R. Buckman
  • The threat of the 'good wife' : feminism, postfeminism, and third-wave feminism in Firefly / Laura L. Beadling
  • The companions and Socrates : is Inara a Hetaera? / Andrew Aberdein
  • 'I aim to misbehave' : masculinities in the 'verse / David Magill
  • 'The alliance isn't some evil empire' : dystopia in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan
  • Back to the future : retrofuturism, cyberpunk, and humanity in Firefly and Serenity / Lorna Jowett
  • Firefly's 'out of gas' : genre echoes and the hero's journey / Mary Alice Money
  • Reavers and redskins : creating the frontier savage / J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson
  • A geopolitical interpretation of Serenity / Jeffrey Bussolini
  • 'I do not hold to that' : Joss Whedon and original sin / Rhonda V. Wilcox
  • Humanity in a 'place of nothin'' : morality, religion, atheism, and possibility in Firefly / Gregory Erickson
  • Music, race, and paradoxes of representation : Jubal Early's musical motif of barbarism in 'Objects in space' / Neil Lerner
  • Marching out of step : music and otherness in the Firefly/Serenity saga / Christopher Neal
  • Between past and future : hybrid design style in Firefly and Serenity / Barbara Maio
  • Deathly serious : mortality, morality, and the mise-en-scène in Firefly and Serenity / Matthew Pateman
  • 'Can't stop the signal' : the resurrection/regeneration of Serenity / Stacey Abbott
  • The browncoats are coming! Firefly, Serenity, and fan activism / Tanya R. Cochran.