Sense8

Transcending Television

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5293-5 (ISBN)

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This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those between its producers, stars, audiences and fans. Sense8 united, inspired and energized a global community of fans that realized its own power by means of online interaction and a successful campaign to secure a series finale. The series' playful but poignant exploration of globalization, empathy, transnationalism, queer and trans aesthetics, gender fluidity, imagined communities and communities of sentiment also inspired the interdisciplinary range of contributors to this volume.

In this collection, leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital, multifarious, contemporary social, political, aesthetic and philosophical concerns. Sense8: Transcending Television is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive, communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social, political and cultural, and now both physical and virtual too.

Deborah Shaw is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the founding co-editor of the journal Transnational Cinemas (Now Transnational Screens), and her books include Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films (2003), The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón (2013), The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (co-edited with Ann Davies and Dolores Tierney, 2014), and Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics (co-edited with Deborah Martin 2017). Rob Stone is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Spanish Cinema (2001), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don’t Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013, 2nd edn 2018) and co-author of Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History (2016). He also co-edited Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (2013), A Companion to Luis Buñuel (2013) and The Routledge Companion to World Cinema (2018).

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List of contributors

Introduction: A Sense8 of Belonging
Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone

1. What’s Going On?: Netflix and the Commissioning of Sense8
Amanda Lotz

2. You Are No Longer Just You: Netflix, Sense8 and the Evolution of Television
Zoë Shacklock

3. Skip Intro?: Sense8’s Title Sequence
James Walters

4. The Sense8 Bible: The Creation of a New Creed for Our Times
Deborah Shaw

5. What's Queer about a Cluster?: Sense8’s Polycentric Imaginary
Rosalind Galt

6. Between Necropower and Erotopolitics: Community and Clusterfuck as Alloerotic Distraction
John Lessard

7. Sing a Song of Sense8: Musicality, Multiplicity and Synchronicity
Rob Stone

8. Sense8 and The City: Frontier Cosmopolitanism
Luis Freijo

9. The Common Good: Birth, Death and Self-sacrifice in/ofSense8
Will McKeown

10. Dancing in the Streets: The Politics of Sense8’s Pleasure Activism
So Mayer

11. #WeAreTheGlobalCluster: Affectivity, Resistance and Sense8 Fandom
Rox Samer and Laura Horak

12. Revisiting the Cluster
Cáel M. Keegan

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2021
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-5293-8 / 1501352938
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-5293-5 / 9781501352935
Zustand	Neuware