Cult Television

Introduction Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson ix Part I. Cult 1. Toward a Constructivist Approach to Media Cults Philippe Le Guern 3(24) 2. The Mainstream, Distinction, and Cult TV Mark Jancovich and Nathan Hunt 27(18) 3. Quality Science Fiction: Babylon 5's Metatextual Universe Petra Kuppers 45(16) 4. "Bright Particular Star": Patrick Stewart, Jean-Luc Picard, and Cult Television Roberta E. Pearson 61(22) Part II. Fictions 5. Virtual Reality and Cult Television Sara Gwenllian-Jones 83(16) 6. Charactor; or, The Strange Case of Uma Peel David A. Black 99(16) 7. Flexing Those Anthropological Muscles: X-Files, Cult TV, and the Representation of Race and Ethnicity Karen Backstein 115(32) 8. Monsters and Metaphors: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Old World Mary Hammond 147(20) Part III. Fans 9. How to Tell the Difference between Production and Consumption: A Case Study in Doctor Who Fandom Alan McKee 167(20) 10. Trainspotting The Avengers Toby Miller 187(12) 11. Star Trek, Heaven's Gate, and Textual Transcendence Jeffrey Sconce 199(24) 12. A Kind of German Star Trek: Raumpatrouille Orion and the Life of a Cult TV Series Eva Vieth 223(18) Contributors 241