Re-entering the Dollhouse : essays on the Joss Whedon series /
Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (dollhouses) that program individuals with temporary personalitie...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022].
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| Series: | Worlds of Wheldon.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Re-entering the Dollhouse / Michael Starr and Heather M. Porter
- "Now that we have a black president" : white feminism, post-raciality, and the curious case of Boyd Langton / Mary Ellen Iatropoulos
- "The body doesn't matter, it's the mind that we want" : examining and critiquing contemporary socioeconomic and -political structures through Rossum and the framework / Erin M. Giannini 27
- Ripley, Alice, and echo : corporate malfeasance and the female body / Sherry Ginn
- "We're also misunderstood, which great humanitarians often are" : examining the intelligence and wisdom of the mad scientist topher brink / Heather M. Porter
- Earning a place on the ark : evolution, ethics, and epitaphs / Madeline Muntersbjorn
- From androids to actives : death of identity and the legacy of technicism / Thomas D. Parham III
- Agencied objects : locations of the technodomestic object-i in the Whedonverses / Juliette C. Kitchens
- "How does it feel to end the world?" : The dark ecology of the Dollhouse / Michael Starr
- What you don't know won't hurt you? : Constructive omissions in the title music / Janet K. Halfyard
- Friday night rites : the posthuman hero's tale in the television narrative / Devon E. Anderson
- "You cannot possibly stop them alone" : the formula conspiracy story, the monomyth, and Whedon's complicated heroics / Stephen G. Melvin
- "Tell me about the Dollhouse" : the impact of promotional paratexts on audience reception / Tanya R. Cochran
- "I'm awake now" : female cyborgs, self-awareness, and (qualified?) rebellion in Dollhouse and Westworld / Eve Bennett
- "To grow, we all need to suffer" : memory and trauma as the path to personhood / Jeana Jorgensen and Keegan L. Mills
- Lost, not gone : the haunted (doll)house / Catherine Pugh
- Pod people, zombies, dolls : fear and anxiety in I am Legend, Invasion of the body snatchers, and Dollhouse / Charmaine Tant.