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Wilcox examines the writing of John Kessel, which greatly resembles that of dramatist Moliere. Kessel's novel \"Good News from Outer Space,\" like Moliere's play \"Tartuffe,\" deals in large part with issues of religion, the gullibility of followers, and the believability of religious leaders.

The TV series of \"Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,\" \"Moonlighting,\" and \"Remington Steele\" are compared for their treatment of the dominant female with the lower-caste male. The male, the apparently lesser office partner, is mythically the superior member of the duo.

[...]windows and mirrors, both made of glass. Because Grimm is the less well-known series, a bit of information about the premise may be helpful. Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature lists many stories of mirrors which, as Cynthia Chalupa tells us, can \"serve as doorways to fantastic realms\" (628), and Eugenia DeLaMotte brings up the idea of the mirror or window as a \"'doorway into the spiritual world\" (ii6).6 The seminal Gothic scholars Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, on the other hand, connect window imagery with \"enclosure\" (З7); throughout The Madwoman in the Attic, they write of \"images of enclosure and escape, fantasies in which maddened doubles functioned as asocial surrogates for docile selves\" (Appignanesi xvii) - and I will note here that Juliette's various character stages allow her to double herself, including the asocial surrogate who burns the place down, like Jane Eyre's madwoman in the attic. (The mad Bertha Rochester burns down Edward Rochester's - and indeed, her-home; Juliette burns down the home of the Grimms' centuries of knowledge, Nick's secret trailer.)7 The notable fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar also delves into this imagery; in fact, both she and Gilbert and Gubar do so in the course of discussing \"Snow White,\" in which the princess's pregnant biological mother pricks her finger by a window, and after her death the powerful, wicked stepmother famously uses a mirror. [...]she magically walks through a looking glass8 as a woman of power-reaching \"that point where the real journey begins\" (Lacan 7).

The role of the android Data in the TV series \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" is discussed. Central to Data's character is his representation of the oppressed, particularly African Americans. Data's quest to become human is a quest that belongs to all people.

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe (or \"Whedonverse\"). Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon studies the significant role that music plays in these works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Kendra Preston Leonard has collected a varying selection of essays that explore music and sound in Joss Whedon's works. The essays investigate both diegetic and non-diegetic music, considering music from various sources, including the shows' original scores, music performed by the characters themselves, and music contributed by such artists as Michelle Branch, The Sex Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, as well as classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms. The approaches incorporate historical and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media studies, cultural history, and interdisciplinary readings. The book also explores the compositions written by Whedon himself: the theme music for Firefly, and two fully integrated musicals, the Buffy episode \"Once More, With Feeling\" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. With several musical examples, a table with a full breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode \"Hush,\" and an index, this volume will be fascinating to students and scholars of science-fiction, television, film, and popular culture.