Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome to the Future
Michael Starr and Heather M. Porter
Part I: Society and Self
"Now that we have a black president": White Feminism, ­Post-Raciality, and the Curious Case of Boyd Langton
Mary Ellen Iatropoulos
"The body doesn't matter, it's the mind that we want": Examining and Critiquing Contemporary Socioeconomic and -political Structures Through Rossum and the Framework
Erin M. Giannini
Ripley, Alice, and Echo: Corporate Malfeasance and the Female Body
Sherry Ginn
"We're also misunderstood, which great humanitarians often are": Examining the Intelligence and Wisdom of the Mad Scientist Topher Brink
Heather M. Porter
Part II: Philosophy and Technology
Earning a Place on the Ark: Evolution, Ethics, and Epitaphs
Madeline Muntersbjorn
From Androids to Actives: Death of Identity and the Legacy of Technicism
Thomas D. Parham III
Agencied Objects: Locations of the Technodomestic ­Object-I in the Whedonverses
Juliette C. Kitchens
"How does it feel to end the world?": The Dark Ecology of the Dollhouse
Michael Starr
Part III: Form and Function
What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You? Constructive Omissions in the Title Music
Janet K. Halfyard
Friday Night Rites: The Posthuman Hero's Tale in the Television Narrative
Devon E. Anderson
"You cannot possibly stop them alone": The Formula Conspiracy Story, the Monomyth, and Whedon's Complicated Heroics
Stephen G. Melvin
"Tell me about the Dollhouse": The Impact of Promotional Paratexts on Audience Reception
Tanya R. Cochran
Part IV: Influences and Allusions
"I'm awake now": Female Cyborgs, ­Self-Awareness, and (Qualified?) Rebellion in Dollhouse and Westworld
Eve Bennett
"To grow, we all need to suffer": Memory and Trauma as the Path to Personhood
Jeana Jorgensen and Keegan L. Mills
Lost, Not Gone: The Haunted (Doll)House
Catherine Pugh
Pod People, Zombies, Dolls: Fear and Anxiety in I Am Legend, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dollhouse
Charmaine Tanti
Appendix 1: Dollhouse Episode List
Appendix 2: Westworld Episode List, Cited in Text
Appendix 3: Whedon Television Episode List, Cited in Text
Appendix 4: Whedon Filmography, Cited in Text
About the Contributors
Index