The Smallville chronicles
Subtitle: critical essays on the television series
By: edited by Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780810881303; 9780810881310
Subjects: Smallville (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: investigating Smallville / Lincoln Geraghty; title: Texts and Contexts. From comic book to bildungsroman: Smallville, narrative, and the education of a young hero / Stan Beeler; title: Televisual ransformations: myth and social issues in Smallville / Karin Beeler; title: The Kryptonite closet: silence and queer secrecy in Smallville / Jes Battis; title: No flights, no tights: Smallville and the roles of special effects in television / Rayna Denison; title: Audiences and meta-texts. Smallville: superhero mythos and intellectual property regimes / Ian Gordon; title: Vids, vlogs, and blogs: the participatory culture of Smallville's digital fan / Juli Stone Pitzer; title: "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore": Examining Smallville's Canadian Cult Geography / Lincoln Geraghty; title: Sacrifice or Salvation? Smallville's Heroic Survival Amidst Changing Television Trends / Michael S. Duffy; title: Index.