Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies

Preface: five incredible years / David Lavery --Introduction: 'serious spy stuff': the cult pleasures of Alias / Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott. pt. I. Missions/counter missions: narrative and Alias. The show must go on ... and on: narrative and seriality in Alias / Henrik Örnebring -- Endoscopic spies: mapping the internal landscape of Alias / Sergio Angelini -- Sydney Bristow's 'Full disclosure': mythic structure and the fear of motherhood / Paul Zinder. pt. II. Identities/aliases: family, gender and race in Alias. The new hero: women, humanism and violence in Alias and Buffy the vampire slayer / Elizabeth Barnes -- Aliases, alienation and agency: the physical integrity of Sydney Bristow / Deborah Finding and Alice MacLachlan -- Can't live with 'em, can shoot 'em: Alias and the (thermo)nuclear family / Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott -- Alias' inversion of white heroes and brown foes / Jennifer R. Young. pt. III. Terror/counter terror: truth and morality post-9/11. The good, the bad and the justified: moral ambiguity in Alias / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Reflections of Deleuze: an Alias-ed critique of truth / Dyrk Ashton. pt. 4. Authorized personnel/unauthorized personnel: Alias and beyond. Accusatory glances: the evolution and dissolution of the Alias fandom in narrative history / Hillary Robson -- (Re)writing Alias? An examination of the series' fan fiction and media tie-ins / Tricia Jenkins -- Slashing Alias: viewer appropriation of Lauren Reed as commentary on female/female desire / Michaela D.E. Meyer and Linda Baughman -- Alias DVD: re-packaging American 'quality' and 'cult' television series / Denzell Richards.