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Illuminating Torchwood

Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-03-02
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Antal sidor251
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786445707

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction—Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND) PART I: Narrative and TorchwoodOne — 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 TorchwoodSeven — 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 TorchwoodTwelve — “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