Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-282) and index Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran: 'Good myth' : Joss Whedon's further worlds Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran: 'They tried to kill us, and here we are' : episode and film guide Cynthea Masson: 'But she was naked! And all articulate!' : the rhetoric of seduction in Firefly Susan Mandala: Representing the future : Chinese and codeswitching in Firefly Alyson R. Buckman: 'Much madness is divinest sense' : Firefly's 'big damn heroes' and little witches Laura L. Beadling: Thethreat of the 'good wife' : feminism, postfeminism, and third-wave feminism in Firefly Andrew Aberdein: Thecompanions and Socrates : is Inara a Hetaera? David Magill: 'I aim to misbehave' : masculinities in the 'verse Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan: 'Thealliance isn't some evil empire' : dystopia in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity Lorna Jowett: Back to the future : retrofuturism, cyberpunk, and humanity in Firefly and Serenity Mary Alice Money: Firefly's 'out of gas' : genre echoes and the hero's journey J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson: Reavers and redskins : creating the frontier savage Jeffrey Bussolini: Ageopolitical interpretation of Serenity Rhonda V. Wilcox: 'I do not hold to that' : Joss Whedon and original sin Gregory Erickson: Humanity in a 'place of nothin'' : morality, religion, atheism, and possibility in Firefly Neil Lerner: Music, race, and paradoxes of representation : Jubal Early's musical motif of barbarism in 'Objects in space' Christopher Neal: Marching out of step : music and otherness in the Firefly/Serenity saga Barbara Maio: Between past and future : hybrid design style in Firefly and Serenity Matthew Pateman: Deathly serious : mortality, morality, and the mise-en-scène in Firefly and Serenity Stacey Abbott: 'Can't stop the signal' : the resurrection/regeneration of Serenity Tanya R. Cochran.: Thebrowncoats are coming! Firefly, Serenity, and fan activism |
