Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Humanity
“The Whole World Is Their Lab”: The Scientist as Villain,
the Scientist as Hero (Val Nolan)
Nothing but Tech: Cyborgs and the Human Question (Paul Zinder)
Women with the Agency: Dana Scully, Temperance Brennan and Olivia Dunham (Rhonda V. Wilcox)
“We Were Trying to Make You More Than You Were”: The Singularity, Transhumanism and Shapeshifting (Zak Bronson)
Part II: Duality
Same … Yet Other: Interpersonal Communication Across Alternate Worlds (Eleanor Sandry)
“You’re a Smart Boy. But There Is Much You Don’t Know”: A Quantitative Examination of Intelligence, Wisdom and Family Relationships (Heather M. Porter)
Myth(re)making and Border Crossings: Exploring the Classical
Predecessors (Scott Daley)
Nature vs. Nurture: The Psychology of the Twins at the Apple’s
Core (Sherry Ginn)
Part III: Genre
“You Don’t Even Need the Island to Be Weird”: J. J. Abrams and the Weirding of the Small Screen (Stan Hunter Kranc)
Asking the Biopunk Questions: Opposition and Interrogation in Olivia Dunham and Walter Bishop (Jennifer McStotts)
The Television Musical: An Alternate Universe of Storytelling (Christopher M. Culp)
“This Means Bodies”: Body Horror and the Influence of David Cronenberg (Bronwen Calvert)
Part IV: Viewership
Observation on the Fringe: September’s Observation and Narrative
Participation as a Template for Viewer Agency (Julie L. Hawk)
Teasing the Audience: Construction of Meaning Through the
Opening Title Sequence (Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla and Javier Lozano Delmar)
Paratextual Mediation: Fox, Fandom and ­Death-Slot Fridays (Tanya R. Cochran)
Appendix: Fringe Episode List
About the Contributors
Index