I'm thrilled to announce the publication of Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issue at the online journal FlowTV!
I am the Guest Associate Editor of this special issue, in collaboration with Guest Editor Lynne Joyrich. It includes seven essays (including pieces by me,![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
theorynut, alistern, and _mesk), plus Lynne's illuminating introduction. Perhaps most exciting, though, is a full-length interview with Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), in text and audio form!
You'll see the issue on the journal's front page now, and there's also a table of contents. Please leave us comments and spread the word!
Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issueâ€
By Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.
Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica
By Melanie E.S. Kohnen / Brown University
Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.
Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive
By David Bering-Porter / Brown University
Within the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.
Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki
By Sarah Toton / Emory University
Thinking about the wiki as fundamentally generative brings the Battlestar Wiki much closer to fanfic and other the creative endeavors classified traditionally as “female fan initiated.â€
Hera Has Six Mommies (A Transmedia Love Story)
By Julie Levin Russo / Brown University
Television is learning that its offspring can be most fruitful when, like Hera, they’re orphaned: disseminated outside their biologically, technologically, and patriarchally authorized families and adopted by their audiences.
Exogenesis: Mind Children and Cultured Images in Battlestar Galactica
By Alanna Thain / McGill University
As cultured images, Cylons both evoke and exceed biological and media technological reproduction alike, a viral infectious non-human form of reproduction.
Ownership and Desire: Fans’ and Producers’ Polymorphous Triangulations
By Anne Kustritz / University of Michigan
Battlestar Galactica’s use and abuse of its viewers’ affections offer one lens for thinking about the way that audiences interact with producers’ intentions and genre conventions in a media environment increasingly characterized by postmodern genre hybridity and convergence.
Downloads, Copies, and Reboots: Battlestar Galactica and the Changing Terms of TV Genre
By Bob Rehak / Swarthmore College
What’s striking about the many iterations of Galactica is how cleanly the coordinates of its fantasy lure have flipped over time, illustrating the ability of genre myths to reconfigure themselves around new cultural priorities.
Battlestardom: Conversations with Mary McDonnell
By Julie Levin Russo / Brown University
With Lynne Joyrich and Stephanie Nicora
FlowTV welcomes acclaimed actress Mary McDonnell in this event summary and extended interview about her perspectives on Laura Roslin and Battlestar Galactica.
I am the Guest Associate Editor of this special issue, in collaboration with Guest Editor Lynne Joyrich. It includes seven essays (including pieces by me,
theorynut, alistern, and _mesk), plus Lynne's illuminating introduction. Perhaps most exciting, though, is a full-length interview with Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), in text and audio form!You'll see the issue on the journal's front page now, and there's also a table of contents. Please leave us comments and spread the word!
Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issueâ€
By Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.
Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica
By Melanie E.S. Kohnen / Brown University
Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.
Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive
By David Bering-Porter / Brown University
Within the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.
Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki
By Sarah Toton / Emory University
Thinking about the wiki as fundamentally generative brings the Battlestar Wiki much closer to fanfic and other the creative endeavors classified traditionally as “female fan initiated.â€
Hera Has Six Mommies (A Transmedia Love Story)
By Julie Levin Russo / Brown University
Television is learning that its offspring can be most fruitful when, like Hera, they’re orphaned: disseminated outside their biologically, technologically, and patriarchally authorized families and adopted by their audiences.
Exogenesis: Mind Children and Cultured Images in Battlestar Galactica
By Alanna Thain / McGill University
As cultured images, Cylons both evoke and exceed biological and media technological reproduction alike, a viral infectious non-human form of reproduction.
Ownership and Desire: Fans’ and Producers’ Polymorphous Triangulations
By Anne Kustritz / University of Michigan
Battlestar Galactica’s use and abuse of its viewers’ affections offer one lens for thinking about the way that audiences interact with producers’ intentions and genre conventions in a media environment increasingly characterized by postmodern genre hybridity and convergence.
Downloads, Copies, and Reboots: Battlestar Galactica and the Changing Terms of TV Genre
By Bob Rehak / Swarthmore College
What’s striking about the many iterations of Galactica is how cleanly the coordinates of its fantasy lure have flipped over time, illustrating the ability of genre myths to reconfigure themselves around new cultural priorities.
Battlestardom: Conversations with Mary McDonnell
By Julie Levin Russo / Brown University
With Lynne Joyrich and Stephanie Nicora
FlowTV welcomes acclaimed actress Mary McDonnell in this event summary and extended interview about her perspectives on Laura Roslin and Battlestar Galactica.
