The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson

Introduction -- Revisiting Fraggle Rock. Fraggle Rock and the art of world building / Aaron Calbreath-Frasieur -- Outer spaces: Fraggle Rock around the globe / Andrew Leal -- No sex, please. We're Fraggles! / Tami Meredith and Maryanne L. Fisher -- The ecology of Fraggle Rock / Justin Werfel -- Inside the worlds of The Dark Crystal and labyrinth. Interpreting the various species in The Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock / Gideon Haberkorn The Dark Crystal / Roxanne Harde -- A natural history of The Dark Crystal: the conceptual design of Brian Froud / Catriona McAra -- Finding your way through Labyrinth / Tom Holste -- Anti-consumerism in Labyrinth / David R. Burns and Deborah Burns -- Storytellers and specials. Everyone's a storyteller: the shifting roles of stories, storytellers and audiences in The Jim Henson Hour / Anthony F. Strand -- There is no one story / Nathaniel Long -- Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas: the gift of the Muppets / Catherine Edwards -- Telling toy stories in The Christmas Toy / Jennifer C. Garlen and Anissa M. Graham -- Journeys forward and back. The Muppetry of nightmares: figures of fear, danger and terror in The Cosby Show, Chappelle's Show and Saturday Night Live / Michael J. Berntsen -- Dinosaurs and the evolution of the Jim Henson Company / Jennifer Stoessner -- Exploring the alien other on Farscape: human, puppet, costume, cosmetic / Sherry Ginn -- Muppet memes, or Beaker conquers YouTube / Anissa M. Graham -- Fandom and nostalgia in Disney's The Muppets / Jennifer C. Garlen.