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Firefly Revisited

Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series
Science Fiction Television

von: Michael Goodrum, Philip Smith
97,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	02.02.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781442247444
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	226

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Titelbeschreibung

According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the short-lived series Firefly (2002), the cult show is about “nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things.” The chronicles of crewmembers on a scruffy space freighter, Firefly ran for only four months before its abrupt cancellation. In that brief time, however, it established a reputation as one of the best science-fiction programs of the new millennium: sharply written, superbly cast, and set on an exotic multicultural frontier unlike anything ever seen on the small screen. The show’s large, enthusiastic fan following supported a series of comics and a theatrical film, Serenity (2005), that extended the story, deepened the characters, and revealed new wonders and dangers on the deep-space frontier. In Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon’s Classic Series, Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith present a collection that reflects on the program, the characters, and the post-cancellation film and comics that grew out of the show. The contributors to this volume offer fresh perspectives on familiar characters and blaze new trails into unexplored areas of the Firefly universe. Individual essays explore the series’ place in the history of the space-Western subgenre, the political economy of the Alliance, and the uses of music and language in the series to immerse audiences in a multicultural future. These essays look at how the show offered viewers high adventure as well as engaged with a range of themes that still resonate today. As such, Firefly Revisited will intrigue the show’s many fans, as well as Whedon scholars and anyone interested in the twenty-first-century renaissance of science-fiction television.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

A short lived series created by Joss Whedon, Firefly nonetheless developed such a loyal following that Whedon was compelled to write and direct a big screen sequel in 2005. The show continues to generate a life of its own in books and comic books. This collection of twelve essays focuses on a number of themes including colonialism, race, gender, and politics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
Michael Goodrum & Philip Smith
 
Filmography
 
1. Firefly and the Space Western: Frontier Fiction on Fast-Forward<a></a>
 
John Wills
 
2: “A Man of Honor in a Den of Thieves:” War Veterans in Firefly and Serenity
 
David Budgen
 
3: “See What’s Inside:” Understanding the Reavers’ Posthuman Identity and Role in Firefly and Serenity
 
Gareth Hadyk-Delodder & Laura Chilcoat
 
4: At the “Corner of No and Where:” River’s Unmappable Body in the Firefly/Serenityverse
 
Lisa Perdigao 
 
5: “This is Where I Am . . . Ain’t a place of Wishes:” Kyriarchy and the Preservation of 
 
Power in Better Days
 
Samira Nadkarni
 
6: Politics of Loss: The Historical World, “the Right Thing to Do,” and a Utopian 
 
Community in Firefly
 
Dennis Sobolev
 
7: Speaking Chinese: Music and the Exotic in Firefly
 
S. Andrew Granade
 
8: “Where Does Any Story Begin?”: Book Chapters and Whedonverse Choices
 
Dean A. Kowalski
 
9: Lighting Out for the Black: Firefly and the Suspicion of Governance Structures
 
Andrew Howe
 
10: “They Couldn’t Let Us Profit, It Wouldn’t Be Civilized:” Economic Modalities and
 
 Core-Periphery Relationships in the Political Economy of Firefly-Serenity
 
Howard Kahm 
 
11: The Future Isn’t So Shiny: Blade Runner, Firefly, and the Effects of American 
 
Consumerism in Modern China
 
Tara Prescott
 
Index
 
About the Editors and Contributors

Autorenportrait

Michael Goodrum is a lecturer in modern history at Christ Church Canterbury University. He has published articles and reviews in Social History, Literature Compass, Studies in Comics, and the Journal of American Culture. Goodrum has also contributed to edited collections and The Routledge Companion to Comics. Philip Smith teaches English literature and theatre at Sekolah Tunas Muda, Jakarta. His research interests include Asian American alternative comics, Shakespeare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and Holocaust literature.