Joss Whedon's Dollhouse confounding purpose, confusing identity / edited by Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, Heather M. Porter.

Other author Ginn, Sherry.
Other author Buckman, Alyson R.
Other author Porter, Heather M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Descriptionxxvii, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesScience Fiction Television
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.
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LCCN 2013044999
ISBN9781442233126 (cloth : alk. paper)

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