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Firefly Revisited Science Fiction Television Series Editor: A. Bowdoin Van Riper FromStarshipCaptainstoGalacticRebels:LeadersinScienceFictionTelevision,by KimberlyYost,2014 JossWhedon’sDollhouse:ConfoundingPurpose,ConfusingIdentity,editedbySherry Ginn,AlysonR.Buckman,andHeatherM.Porter,2014 DoctorWhoandtheArtofAdaptation:FiftyYearsofStorytelling,byMarcusK.Harmes, 2014 TheLanguageofDoctorWho:FromShakespearetoAlienTongues,editedbyJasonBarr andCamilleD.G.Mustachio,2014 FireflyRevisited:EssaysonJossWhedon’sClassicSeries,editedbyMichaelGoodrum andPhilipSmith,2015 Firefly Revisited Essays on Joss Whedon’s Classic Series Edited by Michael Goodrum Philip Smith ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Fireflyrevisited:essaysonJossWhedon’sclassicseries/editedbyMichaelGoodrum,PhilipSmith. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4422-4743-7(cloth:alk.paper)–ISBN978-1-4422-4744-4(ebook) 1.Firefly(Televisionprogram)I.Goodrum,Michael,1983–editor.II.Smith,Philip,1983–editor. PN1992.77.F54F5652015 791.45'72–dc23 2014040475 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix MichaelGoodrumandPhilipSmith EpisodeListing xxv 1 FireflyandtheSpaceWestern:FrontierFictiononFastForward 1 JohnWills 2 “AManofHonorinaDenofThieves”:WarVeteransinFirefly andSerenity 19 DavidBudgen 3 “SeeWhat’sInside”:UnderstandingtheReavers’Posthuman IdentityandRoleinFireflyandSerenity 37 GarethHadyk-DelodderandLauraChilcoat 4 Atthe“CornerofNoandWhere”:River’sUnmappableBodyin theFirefly/Serenityverse 53 LisaK.Perdigao 5 “ThisIsWhereIAm...Ain’taPlaceofWishes”:Kyriarchy andthePreservationofPowerinBetterDays 69 SamiraNadkarni 6 PoliticsofLoss:TheHistoricalWorld,“theRightThingtoDo,” andaUtopianCommunityinFirefly 85 DennisSobolev 7 SpeakingChinese:MusicandtheExoticinFirefly 101 S.AndrewGranade v vi Contents 8 “WhereDoesAnyStoryBegin?”:BookChaptersand WhedonverseChoices 121 DeanA.Kowalski 9 LightingOutfortheBlack:FireflyandtheSuspicionof GovernanceStructures 139 AndrewHowe 10 “TheyCouldn’tLetUsProfit—ItWouldn’tBeCivilized”: EconomicModalitiesandCore-PeripheryRelationshipsinthe PoliticalEconomyofFirefly-Serenity 155 HowardKahm 11 TheFutureIsn’tSoShiny:BladeRunner,Firefly,andthe EffectsofAmericanConsumerisminModernChina 171 TaraPrescott Index 191 AbouttheEditorsandContributors 195 Acknowledgments Philwishestothankhiswife,Stephanie,who,aswellaslendingherundying supportthroughoutthisproject,alsoprovidedthecoverimage. Mitch wishes to thank his wife, Emma, for singing with him, and his daughter, Anna, for listening to it. He also wishes to thank Maureen Stol- worthyforgettinghimintoFireflyinthefirstplace. Both editors wish to extend their heartfelt thanks to Rhonda D. Wilcox, TanyaR.Cochran,andDavidLaveryfortheiradviceandsupport. It would seem self-serving to thank the authors whose work appears in this book, but let it be noted that, without exception, the contributors whose work can be found in the following pages have shown themselves to be professional, good-humored, and in all respects a pleasure and an honor to workwith. vii
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