Illuminating Torchwood
Subtitle: essays on narrative, character and sexuality in the BBC series
By: edited by Andrew Ireland.
Contributors: Ireland, Andrew.
Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy -- 21
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786445707
Subjects: Torchwood (Television program); Science fiction television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reading the rift / Andrew Ireland; title: Narrative and Torchwood. Playing to the crowd : Torchwood knows we're watching / Andrew Ireland; title: Existentialism and Christian symbolism / R. C. Neighbors; title: Policing the rift : the monstrous and the uncanny / Susan J. Wolfe and Courtney Huse Wika; title: Touching the other : alien contact and transgressive touch / Ria Cheyne; title: More than just a hero's journey : Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness / Valerie Estelle Frankel; title: Screwing aliens and screwing with aliens : Torchwood slashes the doctor / Richard Berger; title: Character and Torchwood. The eternal vigil : Captain Jack as Byronic hero / G. Todd Davis; title: Gwen's evil stepmother : concerning gloves and magic slippers / Valerie Estelle Frankel; title: Transgressive torch bearers : who carries the conÞnes of gothic aesthetics? / Daniel J. Rawcliffe; title: The alien woman : othering and the Oriental / Carrie Dunn; title: Outside the heroic paradigm / Tom Powers; title: Sexuality and Torchwood. "Love the coat" : bisexuality, the female gaze and the romance of sexual politics / Christopher Pullen; title: Fashioning masculinity and desire / Sarah Gilligan; title: Sexual relations and sexual identity issues : brave new worlds or more of the old one? / Sherry Ginn; title: "Loving the alien" : the erotics of technology / Paul Winters; title: Cyberwomen and sleepers : rereading the mulatto. Cyborg and the Black woman's body / Elspeth Kydd; title: No consent necessary : a feminist perspective on non-consensual penetration / Carrie Dunn; title: Out in space : masculinity, sexuality and the science fiction heroics of Captain Jack / Lee Barron.