{"product_id":"sense8-transcending-television-paperback","title":"Sense8: Transcending Television - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRob Stone\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series \u003ci\u003eSense8\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSense8\u003c\/i\u003eunited, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection, leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital, multifarious, contemporary social, political, aesthetic and philosophical concerns. \u003ci\u003eSense8: Transcending Television\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Shaw \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Film and Screen Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the founding co-editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eTransnational Cinemas (Now Transnational Screens)\u003c\/i\u003e, and her books include \u003ci\u003eContemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eThe Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), \u003ci\u003eThe Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro \u003c\/i\u003e(co-edited with Ann Davies and Dolores Tierney, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eLatin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Deborah Martin 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Stone \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Film Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpanish Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eJulio Medem\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eWalk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater \u003c\/i\u003e(2013, 2nd edn 2018) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eBasque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). He also co-edited \u003ci\u003eScreening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Luis Buñuel\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to World Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47343976087801,"sku":"9781501379604","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/M05MMTU0RVM5RGs5K3lOTVNGc0gyQT09.webp?v=1769725152","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sense8-transcending-television-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}