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xi, 290 p. 'Good myth' : Joss Whedon's further worlds / Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran -- 'They tried to kill us, and here we are' : episode and film guide / Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran -- 'But she was naked! And all articulate!' : the rhetoric of seduction in Firefly / Cynthea Masson -- Representing the future : Chinese and codeswitching in Firefly / Susan Mandala -- 'Much madness is divinest sense' : Firefly's 'big damn heroes' and little witches / Alyson R. Buckman -- The threat of the 'good wife' : feminism, postfeminism, and third-wave feminism in Firefly / Laura L. Beadling -- The companions and Socrates : is Inara a Hetaera? / Andrew Aberdein -- 'I aim to misbehave' : masculinities in the 'verse / David Magill -- 'The alliance isn't some evil empire' : dystopia in Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Back to the future : retrofuturism, cyberpunk, and humanity in Firefly and Serenity / Lorna Jowett -- Firefly's 'out of gas' : genre echoes and the hero's journey / Mary Alice Money -- Reavers and redskins : creating the frontier savage / J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson -- A geopolitical interpretation of Serenity / Jeffrey Bussolini -- 'I do not hold to that' : Joss Whedon and original sin / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Humanity in a 'place of nothin'' : morality, religion, atheism, and possibility in Firefly / Gregory Erickson -- Music, race, and paradoxes of representation : Jubal Early's musical motif of barbarism in 'Objects in space' / Neil Lerner -- Marching out of step : music and otherness in the Firefly/Serenity saga / Christopher Neal -- Between past and future : hybrid design style in Firefly and Serenity / Barbara Maio -- Deathly serious : mortality, morality, and the mise-en-sc�ene in Firefly and Serenity / Matthew Pateman -- 'Can't stop the signal' : the resurrection/regeneration of Serenity / Stacey Abbott -- The browncoats are coming! Firefly, Serenity, and fan activism / Tanya R. Cochran. edited by Rhonda V. WIlcox and Tanya R. Cochran. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-282) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. PN1992.77.F54 I58 2008eb 791.45/72 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10289953 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10289953 CaPaEBR 081112 ebr10289953