BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy [electronic resource] /
Call, L.author.
A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Submitting to a loving mistress: BDSM in William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman comics -- Structures of desire: BDSM in the science fiction and fantasy of Samuel R. Delany -- "This wondrous death": power, sex and death in the science fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. -- Death, sex and the cylon: Battlestar Galactica's existential kink theory -- "Sounds like kinky business to me": BDSM on Buffy and Angel -- "It's about trust": slavery and ethics in the dollhouse.
A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse.
Motion pictures and television.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Sociology.
Cultural studies.
Fiction.
Screen Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Film History.
Media Research.
Cultural Studies.
Fiction.