User:Zythe/Jack Harkness/More quotes

Pullen: "Love the Coat: Bisexaulity, the Female Gaze, and the Romance of Sexual Politics"

 * Jack's sexuality is prefigured to suit a female gaze
 * "There is an underlying thread within Torchwood which supports the representation of romance as much as sexuality"
 * Denial of closure in the two imagined couplings (Ianto and Gwen), and Jack's non-exclusivity, represents not so much gay or bisexual stereotype as "the theatre of desire and the heroics of self-denial"

Sarah Gilligan's: "Fashioning Masculinity and Desire"

 * Textual analysis of Harkness and Hart
 * "Argues that the fashioning of their masculine identities creates its own discourse through which costume drama and Post Heritage cinema's escapism flows"
 * Central role of the hero's costume in relation to the representation of masculinity, Torchwood's popularity, and that of the two captains.

Lee Barron: "Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction Heroics of Captain Jack"

 * Representation of sexuality in the show, specifically Jack's
 * How Torchwood "fits in" with British sci fi tradition AND previous representations of homosexuality

Daniel J. Rawcliffe: "Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of the Gothic Aesthetic?"

 * Cardiff presents "myriad examples of the uncanny" and therefore is Gothic location
 * Gwen = Gothic heroine
 * Jack = Gothic hero
 * Latter's masculinity + "omnisexuality" enables him to "escape the trappings of the Gothic"

Valery Estelle Frankel: "More Than Just a Hero's Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness"

 * The show has Potteresque fantasy elements
 * Jack's narrative conforms to a fantasy series' "hero's journey" narrative

G. Todd Davis: "Jack Harkness as Byronic Hero"

 * "exemplifies the traits" of the Byronic hero"
 * "highly intelligent and cynical, with a superiority complex"
 * "always striking and frequently handsome... tall, manly, stalwart physique couples with dark hairs and brows" (82)
 * "Frequently, a mystery surrounds his birth and upbringing, and there tends to be an aura of past secret sins" (82-3)
 * "commanding voice of authority that demands unquestioning loyalty" (83) (Gwen)
 * "immortality tends to feed Jack's superiority complex"
 * "in an act of pure altruism, he is perfectly willing to martyr himself to save the human race"
 * "like most Byronic heroes, he suffers from a guilty secret that he keeps hidden from his associates"
 * "radiantly embodies the characteristics of the Byronic hero, thereby aligning him with such literary heroes as Milton's Lucifer, Prometheus, Faust, Cain, Ahaseurus, and Byron's Manfred among others." As well as The Crow, Q, the Terminator and Angel.
 * "Jack's legacy will live on, even if Torchwood does not."