Illuminating Torchwood : essays on narrative, character and sexuality in the BBC series /
Ireland, Andrew.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
c2010.
"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.
"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 conÞnes 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 mulatto. 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.
Torchwood (Television program)
Science fiction television programs