Investigating Alias : secrets and spies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Abbott, Stacey, Brown, Simon
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; 2007.
Series:	Investigating cult TV.
Subjects:	Alias (Television program) Spy television programs > United States > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Preface: five incredible years / David Lavery
Introduction: 'serious spy stuff': the cult pleasures of Alias / Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott. Pt. I. Missions/counter missions: narrative and Alias. The show must go on ... and on: narrative and seriality in Alias / Henrik Örnebring
Endoscopic spies: mapping the internal landscape of Alias / Sergio Angelini
Sydney Bristow's 'Full disclosure': mythic structure and the fear of motherhood / Paul Zinder. Pt. II. Identities/aliases: family, gender and race in Alias. The new hero: women, humanism and violence in Alias and Buffy the vampire slayer / Elizabeth Barnes
Aliases, alienation and agency: the physical integrity of Sydney Bristow / Deborah Finding and Alice MacLachlan
Can't live with 'em, can shoot 'em: Alias and the (thermo)nuclear family / Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott
Alias' inversion of white heroes and brown foes / Jennifer R. Young. Pt. III. Terror/counter terror: truth and morality post-9/11. The good, the bad and the justified: moral ambiguity in Alias / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan
Reflections of Deleuze: an Alias-ed critique of truth / Dyrk Ashton. Pt. 4. Authorized personnel/unauthorized personnel: Alias and beyond. Accusatory glances: the evolution and dissolution of the Alias fandom in narrative history / Hillary Robson
(Re)writing Alias? An examination of the series' fan fiction and media tie-ins / Tricia Jenkins
Slashing Alias: viewer appropriation of Lauren Reed as commentary on female/female desire / Michaela D.E. Meyer and Linda Baughman
Alias DVD: re-packaging American 'quality' and 'cult' television series / Denzell Richards.