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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Williams is Lecturer in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Glamorgan. She has written widely on contemporary cult television and published in journals including Critical Studies in Television, Popular Communication, Continuum, Television and New Media, and Media History. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsRebecca Williams –Torchwood: Bridging the mainstream/cult rift.Section 1: Media institutions, branding & multi-platformingAccess Denied: Intertextual Barricades and Public Service Broadcasting in Torchwood - 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 From Spin-off to Tie-in: Torchwood's Transmedia Storytelling in 'Old' Media - Matt HillsSection 2: Torchwood, aesthetics and televisuality5. Lost boys and the fantasy of Empire Torchwood – Children of Earth - Karen Lury 6. Crisis of Authority / Authoring Crisis: Decision and Power in Torchwood: Children of Earth - Martin Griffin & Rosanne Welch 7. Walking Corpses, Regenerating Dead, and Alien Bodies: Monstrous Embodiment in Torchwood - Stacey Abbott Section 3: Torchwood, place and location8. ‘When you see Cardiff on film, it looks like LA’ (John Barrowman): Space, Genre and Realism in Torchwood’ - Stephen Lacey9. ‘Tonight’s the Night with…Captain Jack? John Barrowman: Celebrity/subcultural celebrity/localebrity - Rebecca Williams Section 4: Torchwood’s reception and audiences10. Love Captain Jack or Hate Him: How Torchwood Has Polarized the Doctor Who Fandom - Lindsay Bryde 11. Quaint Little Categories: Gender and Sexuality in Torchwood and its Importance to the Fandom - Jeannette Vermeulen12. The Shape-shifter: Fluid Sexuality as Part of Torchwood’s Changing Generic Matrix and ‘Cult’ Status - Craig Haslop Select BibliographyList of Television Series & FilmsIndex...
