Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS: INVESTIGATING FIREFLY AND SERENITY Introduction by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran, editors Language and Rhetoric 1. Masson, Cynthea ‘But She Was Naked! And All Articulate!’: The Rhetoric of Seduction in Firefly 2. Mandala, Susan Representing the Future: Chinese and Code-Switching in Joss Whedon’s Firefly 3. Buckman, Alyson R. ‘Big Damn Heroes’ and Little Witches: The Male Gaze and Female Language in Joss Whedon’s Firefly Gender 4. Magill, David ‘I Aim to Misbehave’: Masculinities in the ‘Verse 5. Aberdein, Andrew Companions and Socrates: Is Inara a Hetaera? 6. Beadling, Laura The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Gender and Sexuality in 'Firefly' Genre 7. Sutherland, Sharon and Sarah Swan A Post 9/11 Map of Hell: Joss Whedon’s Feminist Space-Western Dystopia 8. Jowett, Lorna Back to the Future: Retrofuturism and Cyberpunk in 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' 9. Money, Mary Alice Firefly’s ‘Out of Gas’ and Genre Echoes Social and Cultural Themes 10. Richardson, Mike and Doug Rabb Reavers and Redskins: Creating the Frontier Savage 11. Bussolini, Jeffrey Geopolitical Implications of 'Serenity' and 'Firefly' Religion and Morality 12. Wilcox, Rhonda V.‘I Do Not Hold to That’: Joss Whedon and Original Sin 13. Erickson, Gregory Humanity in a ‘Space of Nothin’: Morality, Religion, Atheism, and Possibility in 'Firefly' Music 14. Lerner, Neil Music, Race, and Paradoxes of Representation in an Episode of 'Firefly': Jubal Early’s Musical Motif of Barbarism in ‘Objects in Space’ 15. Neal, Christopher The Ballad of Jayne and Marching out of Step: Music and Otherness in the Firefly/Serenity Saga Visuals 16. Maio, Barbara Between Past and Future: Hybrid Design Style on' Firefly' and 'Serenity' 17. Pateman, Matthew Deathly Serious: Mortality, Morality, and the Mise-en-Scène in 'Firefly' and 'Serenity'

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Joss Whedon, probably the first recognised TV auteur, who brought us Buffy and Angel, is also the creator of the remarkable space Western "Firefly" and the major Firefly film "Serenity". This book is the definitive one on both "Firefly" and "Serenity".

About the Author

Rhonda V. Wilcox, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, USA. founding editor of 'Critical Studies in Television' journal, and coeditor of 'Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies'. She is the author of 'Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (I.B.Tauris, 2005) and the coeditor of 'Fighting the Forces: What's At Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (2002). Tanya R. Cochran is Assistant Professor of English at Union College in Nebraska. Her publications include a chapter on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' for 'Televising Queer Women' (2007). Currently she chairs the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Popular Culture Association and serves on the editorial board of 'Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy Studies'.