Torchwood declassified : investigating mainstream cult television /
Torchwood started its life on television as a spin-off from Doctor Who, bringing Captain Jack to join new colleagues in a television series that quickly established itself as fresh and watchable television. It's fourth series, subtitled 'Miracle Day', continued its move from the niche...
| Други автори: | Williams, Rebecca, (Editor) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2013.
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Investigating cult TV.
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Съдържание:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Torchwood: Bridging the Mainstream/Cult Rift; PART I. MEDIA INSTITUTIONS, BRANDING AND MULTI-PLATFORMING; 1. ACCESS DENIED? NEGOTIATING PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMERCIAL TENSIONS THROUGH TORCHWOOD'S INTERTEXTUAL BARRICADE; 2. 'COOL BUT HIGH QUALITY': TORCHWOOD, BBC AMERICA AND TRANSATLANTIC BRANDING, 1998-2011; 3. CULT YET? THE 'MIRACLE' OF INTERNATIONALIZATION; 4. TRANSMEDIA TORCHWOOD: INVESTIGATING A TELEVISION SPIN-OFF'S TIE-IN NOVELS AND AUDIO ADVENTURES; PART II. TORCHWOOD, AESTHETICS AND TELEVISUALITY.
- 5. lost boys and the fantasy of empire: torchwood
- 'children of earth'6. crisis of authority/authoring crisis: decision and power in torchwood-'children of earth'; 7. walking corpses, regenerating dead and alien bodies: monstrous embodiment in torchwood; part iii. torchwood, place and location; 8. 'when you see cardiff on film, it looks like la' (john barrowman): space, genre, and realism in torchwood; 9. tonight's the night with . . .captain jack! torchwood's john barrowman as celebrity/subcultural celebrity/localebrity; part iv. torchwood's reception and audiences.
- 10. love captain jack or hate him: how torchwood has polarised the doctor who fandom11. quaint little categories: gender and sexuality in torchwood and its importance to the fandom; 12. the shape-shifter: fluid sexuality as part of torchwood's changing generic matrix and 'cult' status; select bibliography; list of television series & films; index.