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Subject(s)

• Torchwood (Television program) [Browse]
• Science fiction television programs—Great Britain—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

Ireland, Andrew [Browse]

Series

• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 21. [More in this series]
• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 21 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : reading the rift / Andrew Ireland
• Narrative and Torchwood. Playing to the crowd : Torchwood knows we're watching / Andrew Ireland
• Existentialism and Christian symbolism / R. C. Neighbors
• Policing the rift : the monstrous and the uncanny / Susan J. Wolfe and Courtney Huse Wika
• Touching the other : alien contact and transgressive touch / Ria Cheyne
• More than just a hero's journey : Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness / Valerie Estelle Frankel
• Screwing aliens and screwing with aliens : Torchwood slashes the doctor / Richard Berger
• Character and Torchwood. The eternal vigil : Captain Jack as Byronic hero / G. Todd Davis
• Gwen's evil stepmother : concerning gloves and magic slippers / Valerie Estelle Frankel
• Transgressive torch bearers : who carries the confines of gothic aesthetics? / Daniel J. Rawcliffe
• The alien woman : othering and the Oriental / Carrie Dunn
• Outside the heroic paradigm / Tom Powers
• Sexuality and Torchwood. "Love the coat" : bisexuality, the female gaze and the romance of sexual politics / Christopher Pullen
• Fashioning masculinity and desire / Sarah Gilligan
• Sexual relations and sexual identity issues : brave new worlds or more of the old one? / Sherry Ginn
• "Loving the alien" : the erotics of technology / Paul Winters
• Cyberwomen and sleepers : rereading the mulatta. Cyborg and the Black woman's body / Elspeth Kydd
• No consent necessary : a feminist perspective on non-consensual penetration / Carrie Dunn
• Out in space : masculinity, sexuality and the science fiction heroics of Captain Jack / Lee Barron.

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ISBN

• 9780786445707 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 078644570X (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009052865

OCLC

463284094

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