Research Catalog

Title

Sisterhood, science, and surveillance in Orphan Black : critical essays / edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Alyson R. Buckman.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Croft, Janet Brennan
• Buckman, Alyson R.

Description

vi, 214 pages; 23 cm

Summary

""The BBC America series Orphan Black (2013-2017) won acclaim for its compelling writing, resonant themes and innovative special effects. And for the bravura acting of Tatiana Maslany, who plays an ever-growing number of clones drawn into an increasingly dangerous world of cutting-edge science, corporate espionage, military secrets and religious fanaticism. Heir to pioneering shows centered on strong female characters, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Lost and Xena: Warrior Princess, Orphan Black models the current Golden Age of serial-form storytelling, with themes of identity, bodily autonomy, gender and sexuality playing against corporate greed and its co-opting of science. This collection of new essays analyzes the diverse clone characters and the series, covering topics including motherhood, surveillance culture, mythology, eugenics, and special effects, as well as the science behind cloning." --

Subject

• Orphan black (Television program)
• Feminism on television
• Science on television
• Corporate culture on television
• Human cloning on television
• Eugenics on television
• Women on television
• Heroines on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: A Galaxy of Women / Alyson R. Buckman and Janet Brennan Croft -- "I am not your property": the Progressive feminism of Orphan Black / GraeMe J. Wilson -- Women's rebellion or radical Containment? understanding Orphan Black's feminist Message / DanI Howell -- "to Hound nature in Her Wanderings": Soccer Moms, Punks and Postfeminist Mothers on Orphan Black / erIn bell -- Making Clones, Making Mothers: Motherhood in Orphan Black / Jenny bonnevIer -- Motherless bad girl/bad girl Mother: naturalizing and essentializing Motherhood in Orphan Black / Laine Zisman Newman -- Hell and back: Helena as kore and Shaman in Orphan Black / Janet Brennan Croft -- living in the Panopticon: resistance to Surveillance in Orphan Black / Brandi Bradley -- "My story is an embroidery": representing trauma Within the World of Orphan Black / Alyson r. Buckman -- Performing bodies: Multiplying Cyborg- Clones, CgI and the Invisible Special effect / Bronwen Calvert -- Sheeply empowerment: An Analysis of M.k.'s reappropriation in Orphan Black / JennIfer Deross -- cdna/©dna in Orphan Black: eugenics, Surplus life and the Castor virus / Jessic Lee Mathiason.

Call Number

MWGV (Canada) 20-973

ISBN

• 9781476668543
• 147666854X

LCCN

2019041700

OCLC

1110056632

Title

Sisterhood, science, and surveillance in Orphan Black : critical essays / edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Alyson R. Buckman.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Croft, Janet Brennan, editor.

Buckman, Alyson R., editor.

Research Call Number

MWGV (Canada) 20-973