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The philosophy of Joss Whedon /
Every generation produces a counterculture icon. Joss Whedon, creator of the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is famed for his subversive wit, rich characters, and extraordinary plotlines. His renown has only grown with subsequent creations, including Angel, Firefly, Dollhous...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Philosophy of popular culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1; Firefly and Freedom; "Just Get Us a Little Further": Liberty and the Frontier in Firefly and Serenity; The State of Nature and Social Contracts on Spaceship Serenity; Dollhouse and Consensual Slavery; Part 2; Plato, Aristotle, and Joss on Being Horrible; Aristotle, Kant, Spike, and Jayne: Ethics and Character in the Whedonverse; Companions, Dolls, and Whores: Joss Whedon on Sex and Prostitution; Fashioning Feminism: Whedon, Women, and Wardrobe.
- Heroes and Villains: Morality, the Will to Power, and the Overman in the Work of Joss WhedonPart 3; Seeking Authenticity in the Whedonverse; "Look What Free Will Has Gotten You": Isolation, Individuality, and Choice in Angel; Aiming to Misbehave at the Boundary between the Human and the Machine: The Queer Steampunk Ecology of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity; Shepherd Book, Malcolm Reynolds, and the Dao of Firefly; Acknowledgments; Appendix: A History of the Whedonverse; Contributors; Index.