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Why Buffy Matters

Author : Rhonda Wilcox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773038X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Why Buffy Matters written by Rhonda Wilcox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugely enjoyable, long awaited book by top world authority on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Buffy is still on screens and on DVD in home television libraries of a wide array of TV watchers and fans. This is also the student text for TV and cultural studies at colleges and universities where Buffy is widely taught. Rhonda Wilcox is a world authority on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", who has been writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens. This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought, a celebration of the series that she proposes is an aesthetic test case for television. Buffy is enduring as art, she argues, by exploring its own possibilities for long-term construction as well as producing individual episodes that are powerful in their own right. She examines therefore the larger patterns that extend through many episodes: the hero myth, the imagery of light, naming symbolism, Spike, sex and redemption, Buffy Summers compared and contrasted with Harry Potter. She then moves in to focus on individual episodes, such as the "Buffy musical Once More, with Feeling", the largely silent Hush and the dream episode "Restless" (T.S. Eliot comes to television). She also examines Buffy's ways of making meaning - from literary narrative and symbolism to visual imagery and sound. Combining great intelligence and wit, written for the wide Buffy readership, this is the worthy companion to the show that has claimed and kept the minds and hearts of watchers worldwide.

Why Buffy Matters

Author : Rhonda Wilcox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771791X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Buffy Meets the Academy

Author : Kevin K. Durand
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453745
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Buffy Meets the Academy written by Kevin K. Durand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same serious attention that is paid to classic philosophy and other long-established fields. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism, redemption, patriarchy, identity and education. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Little Things

Author : Rebecca Moesta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074342736X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Little Things written by Rebecca Moesta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her mother's death, Buffy feels overwhelmed. Lately, she's bogged down by the little things. Buffy gets a toothache, but has no dental insurance--and Anya and Xander are held hostage in their own home by ants. Everyone is determined not to sweat the small stuff--until Spike discovers an economy-sized evil wreaking havoc using mini-monsters. (August)

Mortal Fear

Author : Scott Ciencin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743427718
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Fear written by Scott Ciencin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffy gains a mysterious benefactor, and investigates when a virus hits her town of Sunnydale, California, and ruins the local vampires' food supply.

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born

Author : Evan Ross Katz
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306826704
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born written by Evan Ross Katz and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show’s cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later. Katz—with the help of the show’s cast, creators, and crew—reveals that although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender, sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife, controversy, and shortcomings. Men—both on screen and off—would taint the show’s reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show’s tone. Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk, Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z. Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace, Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom, and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.

I Like to Watch

Author : Emily Nussbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525508961
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book I Like to Watch written by Emily Nussbaum and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big picture : how Buffy the vampire slayer turned me into a TV critic -- The long con ("The Sopranos") -- The great divide : Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the rise of the bad fan -- Difficult women ("Sex and the city") -- Cool story, bro ("True detective," "Top of the lake" and "The fall") -- Last girl in Larchmont : the legacy of Joan Rivers -- Girls girls girls : "Girls," "Vanderpump rules," "House of cards and Scandal," "The Amy Schumer show," "Transparent" -- Confessions of the human shield -- How jokes won the election -- In praise of sex and violence : "Hannibal," "Law et order : SVU," "Jessica Jones," -- "The jinx," "The Americans" -- The price is right : what advertising does to TV -- In living color : Kenya Barris' -- Breaking the box : "Jane the virgin," "The comeback," "The good wife," "The newsroom," "Adventure time," "The leftovers," "High maintenance." -- Riot girl : Jenji Kohan's hot provocations -- A disappointed fan is still a fan ("Lost") -- Mr. big : how Ryan Murphy became the most powerful man in television.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Author : Anne Billson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1844570894
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Buffy the Vampire Slayer written by Anne Billson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1997 to 2003, Buffy the Vampire Slayer single-handedly reinvented the high-school genre, splicing it with action, comedy and the supernatural. Series by series, Anne Billson unravels the magic of Buffy, examining the antecedents, influences and the new twist on the age-old story of the struggle between Good and Evil.

Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing

Author : Kendra Preston Leonard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877651
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing written by Kendra Preston Leonard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe (or "Whedonverse"). Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon studies the significant role that music plays in these works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Kendra Preston Leonard has collected a varying selection of essays that explore music and sound in Joss Whedon's works. The essays investigate both diegetic and non-diegetic music, considering music from various sources, including the shows' original scores, music performed by the characters themselves, and music contributed by such artists as Michelle Branch, The Sex Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, as well as classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms. The approaches incorporate historical and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media studies, cultural history, and interdisciplinary readings. The book also explores the compositions written by Whedon himself: the theme music for Firefly, and two fully integrated musicals, the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. With several musical examples, a table with a full breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode "Hush," and an index, this volume will be fascinating to students and scholars of science-fiction, television, film, and popular culture.

Keep Me in Mind

Author : Nancy Holder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689869568
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Keep Me in Mind written by Nancy Holder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You make your own destiny, with the interactive story lines. Your decisions determine your fate. Do you have what it takes to be a slayer, or will you fail and summon a successor?

Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Author : JanetK. Halfyard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557025
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer written by JanetK. Halfyard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence, helps to develop an increasingly important and inadequately covered area of research - the many roles of music in contemporary television. In addressing this significant gap, this book provides an exemplary overview of the functions of music and sound in the interpretation of a television show. This is done through analyses that focus on scoring and source music, the title theme, the music production process, the critically acclaimed musical episode (voted number 13 in Channel Four's One Hundred Greatest Musicals), the symbolic and dramatic use of silence, and the popular reception of the show by its international fan base. In keeping with contemporary trends in the study of popular musics, a variety of critical approaches are taken from musicology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, specifically employing critique, musical analysis, industry studies, and hermeneutics.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor and Morality

Author : Mark Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522057772
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor and Morality written by Mark Field and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-24 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected essays covering each episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the Making of a Slayer

Author : Nancy Holder
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781781162460
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the Making of a Slayer written by Nancy Holder and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffy, created by Joss Whedon and featuring the titular ass-kicking heroine and her Scooby Gang of friends as they fight vampires and other supernatural horrors in their home town, celebrates its 15th birthday in 2012. This fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book includes quotes from the cast and crew and behind the scenes tidbits from all seven seasons of the show and beyond.

What Would Buffy Do?

Author : Jana Riess
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787969226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book What Would Buffy Do? written by Jana Riess and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Would Buffy Do? explores the fascinating spiritual, religious, and mythological ideas of television's hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer--from apocalypse and sacrifice to self-reliance, redemption, and the need for humor when fighting our spiritual battles.

The Buffyverse Catalog

Author : Don Macnaughtan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487879
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Buffyverse Catalog written by Don Macnaughtan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliographic guide covers the “Buffyverse”—the fictional worlds of the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), as well as the original Buffy feature film of 1992. It is the largest and most inclusive work of its kind. The author organizes and describes both the original texts of the Buffyverse (episodes, DVDs, novels, comic books, games, and more) and the secondary materials created about the shows, including books, essays, articles, documentaries, dissertations, fan production and websites. This vast and diverse collection of information about these two seminal shows and their feature-film forebear provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive survey of the subject.

Speaking of Monsters

Author : Caroline Joan S. Picart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137101490
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Monsters written by Caroline Joan S. Picart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.

The Whedonverse Catalog

Author : Don Macnaughtan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631603
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Whedonverse Catalog written by Don Macnaughtan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.