Torchwood declassified : investigating mainstream cult television / edited by Rebecca Williams.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
[2013]
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| Series: | Investigating cult TV.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Torchwood : bridging the mainstream/cult rift / Rebecca Williams
- Access denied? : Negotiating public service and commercial tensions through Torchwood's intertextual barricade / Ross P. Garner
- "Cool but high quality" : Torchwood, BBC America and Transatlantic branding, 1998-2011 / Gareth James
- Cult yet? : The "miracle" of internationalization / Benjamin W.L. Derhy
- Transmedia Torchwood : investigating a television spin-off's tie-in novels and audio adventures / Matt Hills
- Lost boys and the fantasy of empire : Torchwood
- 'Children of Earth' / Karen Lury
- Crisis of authority/authoring crisis : decision and power in Torchwood
- children of Earth / Martin Griffin and Rosanne Welch
- Walking corpses, regenerating dead and alien bodies : monstrous embodiment in Torchwood / Stacey Abbott
- "When you see Cardiff on film, it looks like LA" (John Barrowman) : space, genre and realism in Torchwood / Stephen Lacey
- Tonight's the night with ... Captain Jack! : Torchwood's John Barrowman as celebrity/subcultural celebrity/localebrity / Rebecca Williams
- Love Captain Jack or hate him : how Torchwood has polarized the Doctor Who fandom / Lindsay Bryde
- Quaint little categories : gender and sexuality in Torchwood and its importance to the fandom / Jeannette Vermeulen
- The shape-shifter : fluid sexuality as part of Torchwood's changing generic matrix and "cult" status / Craig Haslop.