Sense8 : transcending television / edited by Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone..

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Deborah, editor.

Stone, Rob, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction television programs--Appreciation.

Science fiction television programs.

Science fiction television programs--Influence.

Science fiction television programs--History and criticism.

Television programs--Plots, themes, etc.

Television programs.

Sense8 (Television program).

Physical Description:

vi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; London, UK ; Dublin, Ireland : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those between its producers, stars, audiences and fans. Sense8 united, inspired and energized a global community of fans that realized its own power by means of online interaction and a successful campaign to secure a series finale. The series' playful but poignant exploration of globalization, empathy, transnationalism, queer and trans aesthetics, gender fluidity, imagined communities and communities of sentiment also inspired the interdisciplinary range of contributors to this volume. In this collection, leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital, multifarious, contemporary social, political, aesthetic and philosophical concerns. Sense8: Transcending Television is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive, communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social, political and cultural, and now both physical and virtual too"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Sense8 of belonging / Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone

What's going on? Netflix and the commissioning of Sense8 / Amanda D. Lotz

You are no longer just you : Netflix, Sense8, and the evolution of television / Zoë Shacklock

Skip intro? Sense8's title sequence / James Walters

The Sense8 bible : the creation of a new creed for our times / Deborah Shaw

What's queer about a cluster? Sense8's polycentric imaginary / Rosalind Galt

Between necropower and erotopolitics : community and clusterfuck as alloerotic distraction / John Lessard

Sing a song of Sense8 : musicality, multiplicity, and synchronicity / Rob Stone

Sense8 and the city : frontier cosmopolitanism / Luis Freijo

The common good : birth, death, and self-sacrifice in/of Sense8 / Will McKeown

Dancing in the streets : the politics of Sense8's pleasure activism / So Mayer

#WeAreTheGlobalCluster : affectivity, resistance, and Sense8 fandom / Rox Samer and Laura Horak

Revisiting the cluster / Cáel M. Keegan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Sense8

ISBN:

9781501379604

1501379607

OCLC:

1236898194

Publisher Number:

90103967733