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  • Re-Entering the Dollhouse

    Essays on the Joss Whedon Series

    Edited by Heather M. Porter, Michael Starr ...
    Series series Worlds of Whedon
    Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (Dollhouses) that program individuals with temporary personalities and abilities. The protagonist assumes a different identity each episode--her defining characteristic a ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Wells Meets Deleuze

    The Scientific Romances Reconsidered

    by Michael Starr ...
    Series Book 57 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern science fiction continues to be indebted to his "scientific romances," such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Interpreted and adapted for more than a century, Wells's texts have resisted easy categorization and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Life on the Screen

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    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing

    Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon

    by Elizabeth A. Clendinning, Steve Halfyard, Amanda Howell, Eric Hung, Linda Jencson, Cynthea Masson, Jeffrey Middents, Matthew Mills, Christopher Wiley, Stanley C. Pelkey II, Jacqueline Bach ...
    When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion

    The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More

    by PopMatters ...
    HE ESSENTIAL UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE WHEDONVERSEJoss Whedon’s importance in contemporary pop culture can hardly be overstated, but there has never been a book providing a comprehensive survey of his career as a whole – until now. The Complete Companion covers every aspect of the Whedonverse through insightful essays and interviews, including fascinating conversations with key collaborators Jane ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Tech-Noir Film

    A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres

    by Emily E. Auger ...
    From the postapocalyptic world of Blade Runner to theJames Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works—including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—are discussed with reference ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction

    A Critical Study

    by Carlen Lavigne ...
    This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews the critical reactions and outlines the ways in which women's cyberpunk advances points of view that are specifically feminist. Novels are examined within their cultural contexts; their content is ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Evaporating Genres

    Essays on Fantastic Literature

    by Gary K. Wolfe ...
    A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and growIn this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the ... Read more

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