Sense8: Transcending Television (Hardcover)

Foreword List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction: Sense8 and Sensibility Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK 1. Why Did Netflix Make Sense8 and How Did Being on Netflix Shape It? Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan, USA 2. You Are No Longer Just You: Netflix, Sense8 and the Evolution of Television Zoe Shacklock, University of St. Andrews, UK 3. The Sense8 Bible: A Queer Congregation Open to All Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK 4. What's Queer about a Cluster?: Sense8's Poly-centric Imaginary Rosalind Galt, King's College London, UK 5. Skip Intro?: Sense8 and the (In)visible At of the Television Title Sequence James Walters, University of Birmingham, UK 6. Sense8 and The City: Frontier Cosmopolitanism Luis Freijo, University of Birmingham, UK 7. Queer Montage: Editing and Meaning in Sense8 Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa, USA 8. What's Up?: Temporal Dysphoria and Reparative Time in Sense8 Cael M. Keegan, Grand Valley State University, USA 9. Registers of Performance in Sense8: (Trans-)nationality, Physicality and Appearance Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton, UK 10. Sing a Song of Sense8: Musicality, Multiplicity and Synchronicity Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK 11. Dancing in the Streets: The Politics of Sense8's Pleasure Activism So Mayer, writer and activist, Club des femmes, UK 12. An Allocentric Clusterfuck: Sense8, Community and the Erotics of Distraction John Lessard, University of the Pacific, USA 13. The Common Good: Birth, Death and Self-sacrifice in/of Sense8 Will McKeown, University of Birmingham, UK 14. #WeAreTheGlobalCluster: Affectivity, Resistance and Sense8 Fandom Roxanne Samer, Grand Valley State University, and Laura Horak, Carleton University, Canada Index