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Joss Whedon's Dollhouse : confounding purpose, confusing identity /

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 ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ginn, Sherry (Editor ), Buckman, Alyson R. (Editor ), Porter, Heather M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
Colección:Science fiction television.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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