Stagecoach in Space

Erisman, Fred. "Stagecoach in Space: The Legacy of Firefly. Extrapolation 47.2 (Summer 2006): 249-58.

A discussion of the relationship betweem John Ford's 1939 Western and the Firefly TV series premiering in September of 2002. See for space and/vs. the American West as hostile environments, and the spaceship Firefly as a protective environment (see esp. 252-53. Note also development in Firefly and Stagecoach of the advantages and (more so) disadvantages of civilization (254-55). (RDE, 28/12/06)