Illuminating Torchwood

Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series
Herausgeber: Ireland, Andrew; Sullivan Iii, C. W.; Palumbo, Donald E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Created in 2006 as a spinoff of Doctor Who, the internationally popular BBC television series Torchwood is a unique blend of science fiction and fantasy, with much more of an adult flavor than its progenitor. The series' ""omnisexual"" protagonist, maverick 51st-century time agent Captain Jack Harkness, leads a team of operatives from the present-day Torchwood Institute, a secret organization dedicated to battling supernatural and extraterrestrial criminals. With its archetypal characters, adult language, subversive humor and openly homosexual and bisexual storylines, Torchwood provides a wealth of material for scholarly analysis and debate. Using Torchwood as its focal point, this timely collection of essays by a range of experts and enthusiasts provides an interpretive framework for understanding the continually developing forms and genres of contemporary television drama.

Produktdetails

• Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Nr.21
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780786445707
• ISBN-10: 078644570X
• Artikelnr.: 28178952

Autorenporträt

Andrew Ireland is the associate dean for undergraduate students in the Media School of the United Kingdom's Bournemouth University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction-Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND)     
PART I: Narrative and Torchwood
One - Playing to the Crowd: Torchwood Knows We're Watching
(ANDREW IRELAND)     
Two - Existentialism and Christian Symbolism
(R. C. NEIGHBORS)     
Three - Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny
(SUSAN J. WOLFE and COURTNEY HUSE WIKA)     
Four - Touching the Other: Alien Contact and Transgressive Touch
(RIA CHEYNE)     
Five - More Than Just a Hero's Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and
Captain Jack Harkness
(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)     
Six - Screwing Aliens and Screwing with Aliens: Torchwood Slashes the
Doctor
(RICHARD BERGER)     
PART II: Character and Torchwood
Seven - The Eternal Vigil: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero
(G. TODD DAVIS)     
Eight - Gwen's Evil Stepmother: Concerning Gloves and Magic Slippers
(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)     
Nine - Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of Gothic
Aesthetics?
(DANIEL J. RAWCLIFFE)     
Ten - The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental
(CARRIE DUNN)     
Eleven - Outside the Heroic Paradigm
(TOM POWERS)     
PART III: Sexuality and Torchwood
Twelve - "Love the coat": Bisexuality, the Female Gaze and the Romance of
Sexual Politics
(CHRISTOPHER PULLEN)     
Thirteen - Fashioning Masculinity and Desire
(SARAH GILLIGAN)     
Fourteen - Sexual Relations and Sexual Identity Issues: Brave New Worlds or
More of the Old One?
(SHERRY GINN)     
Fifteen - "Loving the Alien": The Erotics of Technology
(PAUL WINTERS)     
Sixteen - Cyberwomen and Sleepers: Rereading the Mulatta Cyborg and the
Black Woman's Body
(ELSPETH KYDD)     
Seventeen - No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual
Penetration
(CARRIE DUNN)     
Eighteen - Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction
Heroics of Captain Jack
(LEE BARRON)     
Episode Guide     
About the Contributors     
Index