Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fantasy Is His Business, But It Is Not His Purpose: An Introduction to Joss Whedon and His Storytelling
Alyson R. Buckman

Part 1. Self and Identity
Chapter 1: “I’ve Watched You Build Yourself From Scratch”: The Assemblage of Echo
Michael Starr
Chapter 2: “We Are Not Just Human Anymore”—Accepting the Posthuman Future
Meg Saint Clair Pearson
Chapter 3: Anamnesis, Hypomnesis, and the Failure of the Posthuman in Whedon’s Dollhouse
Margo Collins

Part 2. Ethics
Chapter 4: ‘What about the laws?’—Regulation and the Celebration of Resistance
Tom Garbett
Chapter 5: Somebody’s Asian on TV: Sierra/Priya and the Politics of Representation
Ananya Mukherjea
Chapter 6: “In my house and therefore in my care”: Transgressive Mothering, Abuse, and Embodiment
Samira Nadkarni
Chapter 7: “I possess the means to satisfy my vagaries:” What Motivates the Dollhouse Clients?
Heather M. Porter and Sherry Ginn

Part 3. Structure and Form
Chapter 8: “Who Did They Make Me This Time?”: Viewing Pleasure and Horror
Bronwen Calvert
Chapter 9: “I love him . . . Is that real?” Interrogating Romance Through Victor and Sierra
Lorna Jowett
Chapter 10: The Theatre of the Self: Repetitious and Reflective Practices of Person and Place
Joel Hawkes
Chapter 11: “We’re Lost. We are not Gone”: Critical Dystopia and the Politics of Radical Hope
Derrick King
Chapter 12: Welcome to the Dollhouse: Reading Its Opening Title Sequences
David Kociemba
Chapter 13: Ritual, Rebirth, and the Rising Tide: Water and the Transcendent Self
Ian G. Klein

Series Episode List
About the Contributors
Index