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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Science fiction television.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.