Illuminating Torchwood : essays on narrative, character and sexuality in the BBC series / edited by Andrew Ireland.

• 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 confines 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 mulatta. 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.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Science fiction  (sao)

Science fiction television programs  -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

TV-serier, Storbritannien  (sfit)

Tv-serier  -- historia -- Storbritannien (sao)

Science fiction  (LCSH)

Titel

Torchwood (UK, 2006-)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Bub-e Television och video: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien)

Klassifikation

PN1992.77.T67 (LCC)

791.45/72 (DDC)

T725.3(410) (fiaf/2)

Bub-e (kssb/8)