Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series
Created in 2006 as a spinoff of Doctor Who, the internationally popular BBC television series Torchwood is a unique blend of science fiction and fantasy, with much more of an adult flavor than its progenitor. The series' ""omnisexual"" protagonist, maverick 51st-century time agent Captain Jack Harkness, leads a team of operatives from the present-day Torchwood Institute, a secret organization dedicated to battling supernatural and extraterrestrial criminals. With its archetypal characters, adult language, subversive humor and openly homosexual and bisexual storylines, Torchwood provides a wealth of material for scholarly analysis and debate. Using Torchwood as its focal point, this timely collection of essays by a range of experts and enthusiasts provides an interpretive framework for understanding the continually developing forms and genres of contemporary television drama.
- Author
- Andrew Ireland, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, R.C. Neighbors, Susan J. Wolfe, Carrie Dunn, Tom Powers, Christopher Pullen, Sarah Gilligan, Sherry Ginn, Paul Winters, Elspeth Kydd, Lee Barron, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Richard Berger, G. Todd Davis, Ria Cheyne, Courtney Huse Wika, Daniel J. Rawcliffe
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780786445707
- Genres
- essays
- Release date
- 2010
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