Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (eBook)

Sherry Ginn teaches at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. She is the author of Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television (2005), Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon (2012), and The Sex Is out of This World: The Carnal Side of Science Fiction (2012).Alyson R. Buckman teaches American studies, film, popular culture, and multiculturalism in the Humanities and Religious Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento. Her work has appeared in the journal Slayage as well as the anthologies Investigating Firefly and Serenity, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon, and The Joss Whedon Reader.Heather M. Porter is a line and coordinating producer in reality television. A Whedon scholar and charter member of the Whedon Studies Association, Porter has presented at all five Slayage conferences. She is currently coproducing a documentary examining the academic study of the works of Joss Whedon.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fantasy Is His Business, But It Is Not His Purpose: An Introduction to Joss Whedon and His Storytelling, Alyson R. BuckmanPart 1: Self and IdentityChapter 1: “I’ve Watched You Build Yourself From Scratch”: The Assemblage of Echo, Michael StarrChapter 2: “We Are Not Just Human Anymore”—Accepting the Posthuman Future, Meg Saint Clair PearsonChapter 3: Anamnesis, Hypomnesis, and the Failure of the Posthuman in Whedon’s Dollhouse, Margo CollinsPart 2: EthicsChapter 4: ‘What about the laws?’—Regulation and the Celebration of Resistance, Tom GarbettChapter 5: Somebody’s Asian on TV: Sierra/Priya and the Politics of Representation, Ananya MukherjeaChapter 6: “In my house and therefore in my care”: Transgressive Mothering, Abuse, and Embodiment, Samira NadkarniChapter 7: “I possess the means to satisfy my vagaries:” What Motivates the Dollhouse Clients?, Heather M. Porter and Sherry GinnPart 3: Structure and FormChapter 8: “Who Did They Make Me This Time?”: Viewing Pleasure and Horror, Bronwen CalvertChapter 9: “I love him . . . Is that real?” Interrogating Romance Through Victor and Sierra, Lorna JowettChapter 10: The Theatre of the Self: Repetitious and Reflective Practices of Person and Place, Joel HawkesChapter 11: “We’re Lost. We are not Gone”: Critical Dystopia and the Politics of Radical Hope, Derrick KingChapter 12: Welcome to the Dollhouse: Reading Its Opening Title Sequences, David KociembaChapter 13: Ritual, Rebirth, and the Rising Tide: Water and the Transcendent Self, Ian G. KleinSeries Episode ListAbout the ContributorsIndex