I. B. Tauris (London) will publish Rhonda Wilcox and Tanya Cochran's collection of essays on Firefly and Serenity in its "Investigating Cult Television Series, edited by Stacey Abbott

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Introduction by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya Cochran

 Language and Rhetoric

  1. Masson, Cynthea (Malaspina University-College), ‘But She Was Naked! And All…Articulate!’: The Rhetoric of Seduction in Firefly
  2. Buckman, Alyson R. (California State University, Sacramento ), ‘Big Damn Heroes’ and Little Witches: The Male Gaze and Female Language in Joss Whedon’s Firefly
  3. Mandala, Susan (University of Sunderland), Representing the Future: Chinese and Code-Switching in Joss Whedon’s Firefly

 Gender

  1. Magill, David (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown), ‘I Aim to Misbehave’: Masculinities in the ‘Verse
  2. Aberdein, Andrew (Florida Institute of Technology), Companions and Socrates: Is Inara a Hetaera?
  3. Beadling, Laura (Purdue University), The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Gender and Sexuality in Firefly

 Genre

  1. Sutherland, Sharon (University of British Columbia), and Sarah Swan (Independent Scholar), A Post 9/11 Map of Hell: Joss Whedon’s Feminist Space-Western Dystopia
  2. Jowett, Lorna (The University of Northampton), Back to the Future: Retrofuturism and Cyberpunk in Firefly and Serenity
  3. Money, Mary Alice (Gordon College), Firefly’s ‘Out of Gas’ and Genre Echoes

 Social and Cultural Themes

  1. Richardson, Mike (Lakehead University), and Doug Rabb (Lakehead University), Reavers and Redskins: Creating the Frontier Savage
  2. Bussolini, Jeffrey (CUNY College of Staten Island), Geopolitical Implications of Serenity and Firefly

Religion and Morality

  1. Wilcox, Rhonda V. (Gordon College), ‘I Don’t Hold to That’: Joss Whedon and Original Sin
  2. Erickson, Gregory (Mannes College), Humanity in a ‘Space of Nothin’: Morality, Religion, Atheism, and Possibility in Firefly

Music

  1. Lerner, Neil (Davidson College), Music, Race, and Paradoxes of Representation in an Episode of Firefly: Jubal Early’s Musical Motif of Barbarism in ‘Objects in Space’
  2. Neal, Christopher (McMurry University), The Ballad of Jayne and Marching out of Step: Music and Otherness in the Firefly/Serenity Saga

Visuals

  1. Maio, Barbara (Universitŕ Roma Tre), Between Past and Future: Hybrid Design Style on Firefly and Serenity
  2. Pateman, Matthew (University of Hull), Deathly Serious: Mortality, Morality, and the Mise-en-Scčne in Firefly and Serenity

Fans, Transition, and the World Outside

  1. Abbott, Stacey (Roehampton University), ‘Can’t Stop the Signal’: The Resurrection/Regeneration of Serenity
  2. Cochran, Tanya (Union College): The Browncoats Are Coming! Firefly, Serenity, and Fan Activism