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Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series - Science Fiction Television
Michael D Goodrum
A short lived series created by Joss Whedon, Firefly nonetheless developed such a loyal following that Whedon was compelled to write and direct a big screen sequel in 2005. The show continues to generate a life of its own in books and comic books. This collection of twelve ess...
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Michael Goodrum is a lecturer in modern history at Christ Church Canterbury University. He has published articles and reviews in Social History, Literature Compass, Studies in Comics, and the Journal of American Culture. Goodrum has also contributed to edited collections and The Routledge Companion to Comics. Philip Smith teaches English literature and theatre at Sekolah Tunas Muda, Jakarta. His research interests include Asian American alternative comics, Shakespeare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and Holocaust literature. Publisher Marketing: According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the short-lived series Firefly (2002), the cult show is about nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things. The chronicles of crewmembers on a scruffy space freighter, Firefly ran for only four months before its abrupt cancellation. In that brief time, however, it established a reputation as one of the best science-fiction programs of the new millennium: sharply written, superbly cast, and set on an exotic multicultural frontier unlike anything ever seen on the small screen. The show s large, enthusiastic fan following supported a series of comics and a theatrical film, Serenity (2005), that extended the story, deepened the characters, and revealed new wonders and dangers on the deep-space frontier. In Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon s Classic Series, Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith present a collection that reflects on the program, the characters, and the post-cancellation film and comics that grew out of the show. The contributors to this volume offer fresh perspectives on familiar characters and blaze new trails into unexplored areas of the Firefly universe. Individual essays explore the series place in the history of the space-Western subgenre, the political economy of the Alliance, and the uses of music and language in the series to immerse audiences in a multicultural future. These essays look at how the show offered viewers high adventure as well as engaged with a range of themes that still resonate today. As such, Firefly Revisited will intrigue the show s many fans, as well as Whedon scholars and anyone interested in the twenty-first-century renaissance of science-fiction television."
Contributor Bio: Smith, Philip Philip Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology, University of Yale.
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 2 de fevereiro de 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781442247437 |
| Editoras | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Gênero | Interdisciplinary Studies > Pop Culture |
| Páginas | 226 |
| Dimensões | 236 × 161 × 22 mm · 492 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| Editor | Goodrum, Michael |
| Editor | Smith, Philip |
