Edited by Erin B. Waggoner
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4750-3
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5691-8
notes, bibliographies, index
278pp. softcover 2010
Price: $35.00
About the Book
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has remained an enduring feature of late 1990s pop culture, spawning television spin-offs, rabid fans, and significant scholarly inquiry. Though there have been numerous books devoted to the work of Joss Whedon, this collection of fifteen essays is the first to focus specifically on the sexual rhetoric found in his oeuvre, which includes Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dollhouse, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, as well as Buffy.
Topics covered include the role of virginity, lesbianism and homoeroticism in the shows and the comics, the nature of masculinity and femininity and gender stereotypes, an exploration of sexual binaries, and a ranking of the Buffy characters on the Kinsey scale of sexuality. Together these essays constitute a much-needed addition to the expanding body of Whedon gender scholarship.
Table of Contents
Preface 1
The Symbolic Gun in Willow’s Love Life
(Erin B Waggoner) 7
Unthinkable Relationships: Vampire/Slayer and HIV Positive/Negative
(Todd Parks) 18
“Lez-faux” Representations: How Buffy Season Eight Navigates the Politics of Female Heteroflexibility
(Hélène Frohard-Dourlent) 31
Triangulated Desire in Angel and Buffy
(Alyson R Buckman) 48
Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil
(Patricia Pender) 93
Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics
(Lewis Call) 106
Anya as Feminist Model of Positive Female Sexuality
(Tamy Burnett) 117
Images of Paraphilia in the Whedonverse
(Don Tresca) 146
Losing It: The Construction of Virginity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Sara Swain) 173
Nothing Left but Skin and Cartilage: The Body and Toxic Masculinity
(Rachel Luria) 185
Virtually a Femme Fatale: The Case of Buffy’s Faith
(Pnina Moldovano) 194
The Role of Masculinity and Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
( Jessica Price) 215
Exploitation of Bodies and Minds in Season One of Dollhouse
(Catherine Coker) 226
The Companion as a Doll: The Female Enigma in Firefly and Dollhouse
(Nicholas Greco) 239
Exploding Sexual Binaries in Buffy and Angel
(Kathryn Weber) 248
About the Contributors 263
Index 265
About the Author
Erin B. Waggoner is currently an adjunct professor in Kentucky.
Edited by Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-5964-3
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-6214-8
notes, bibliographies, index
231pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2010
Price: $35.00
About the Book
This book combines the academic and practical aspects of teaching by exploring the ways in whichBuffy the Vampire Slayer is taught, internationally, through both interdisciplinary and discipline-based approaches. Essays describe how Buffy can be used to explain--and encourage further discussion of--television’s narrative complexity, archetypal characters, morality, feminism, identity, ethics, non-verbal communication, film production, media and culture, censorship, and Shakespeare, among other topics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: “Let’s Have a Lesson Then”
JODIE A. KREIDER and MEGHAN K. WINCHELL 1
To Spoil or Not to Spoil: Teaching Television’s Narrative Complexity
DAVID KOCIEMBA 7
“Have You Tried Not Being a Slayer?” Performing Buffy Fandom in the Classroom
JASON LAWTON WINSLADE 22
And the Myth Becomes Flesh
TANYA R. COCHRAN 35
Round Up the Usable Suspects: Archetypal Characters in the Study of Popular Culture
BARRY MORRIS 46
Heroism on the Hellmouth: Teaching Morality Through Buffy
K. DALE KOONTZ 61
Whedon Takes “the Scary” Out of Feminism
MEGHAN K. WINCHELL 73
Buffy Goes to College: Identity and the Series-Based Seminar Course
ROD ROMESBURG 83
Ethics Homework from the Hellmouth: Buffy Stakes Her Claim in the First-year Composition Classroom
KEITH FUDGE 94
College Isn’t Just Job Training and Parties: Stimulating Critical Thinking with “The Freshman”
MELISSA C. JOHNSON 103
“Can’t Even Shout, Can’t Even Cry” But You Can Learn! Non-Verbal Communication and “Hush”
BRIAN COGAN . 114
“Show, Don’t Tell”: Teaching the Elements of Film Production
JANE MARTIN 126
Television, Violence and Demons: Discussing Media Effects with the Vampire Slayer
ROSIE WHITE 136
Weeding Out the Offensive Material: Beaut y, Beasts, “Gingerbread,” Television, Literature and Censorship
LEITH D ANIEL 146
“Best Damn Field Trip I Ever Took!” Historical Encounters In and Out of the Classroom
JODIE A. KREIDER 158
Little Red Riding … Buffy? “Buff y vs. Dracula” in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English
KRISTOPHER KARL WOOFTER 169
Buffy the Black Feminist? Intersectionality and Pedagogy
PATRICK R. GRZANKA 186
Slaying Shakespeare in High School : Buffy Battles The Merchant of Venice and Othello
JULIA L. GRANT 202
About the Contributors 213
Index 215
About the Author
Jodie A. Kreider is an academic historian and lecturer in arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver. Her work has been published in the North American Journal of Welsh Studies. Meghan K. Winchell is an associate professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Edited by Kevin K. Durand
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4355-0
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5374-0
bibliographies, index
230pp. softcover 2009
Price: $35.00
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pop Culture Meets the Academy
KEVIN K. DURAND 1
PART I. POWER AND THE BUFFY CANON
Canon Fodder
Assembling the Text
KEVIN K. DURAND 9
Canon Fodder Revisited Buffy Meets the Bard
BRENT LINSLEY . 17
Genre and the Impact on Storytelling in Season Eight
LEIGH CLEMONS 25
Buffy’s Seven-Season Initiation
DAVID FRITTS . 32
It’s All about Power
KEVIN K. DURAND 45
Buffy Never Goes It Alone
The Rhetorical Construction of Sisterhood in the Final Season
SUSAN PAYNE-MULLIKEN and VALERIE RENEGAR 57
PART II. BUFFY MEETS THE CLASSICS
King Lear, Buffy, and Apocalyptic Revisionism
CLINTON P.E. ATCHLEY 81
Grimm Realities
Buffy and the Uses of Folklore
ELIZABETH BRIDGES 91
The Failed Quest for “Anti-Self-Consciousness”
DENISE TISCHLER MILLSTEIN 104
Buffy’s Insight into Wollstonecraft and Mill
KEVIN K. DURAND 115
PART III. BUFFY, THE SCOOBIES, AND BEYOND
Buffy’s Dream in Surprise
MELANIE WILSON 125
Complexes My Mother Left Me Spike Meets Robin Wood
BRENT LINSLEY 131
She Believes in Me Angel, Spike, and Redemption
MELANIE WILSON 137
Cordelia Chase as Failed Feminist Gesture
AMIJO COMEFORD 150
Why the Cheese Man Is an Integral Part of Restless
MELANIE WILSON 161
Wesley as Tragic Hero
REBECCA BOBBITT 169
The Battle Against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness
KEVIN K. DURAND 176
PART IV. BUFFY AND THE CLASSROOM
Concepts of Identity When Nancy Drew Meets Buffy
LAUREN SCHULTZ 187
The High School Education of Buffy Summers
KEITH FUDGE . 203
Keeping Buffy in the Classroom
TAMARA WILSON 211
About the Contributors 219
Index 223
About the Author
Kevin K. Durand is Math and Physics Professor at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics.
Mary K. Leigh is a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the University of Arkansas.
Edited by Mary Kirby-Diaz
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4205-8
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5320-7
glossary, bibliography, index
219pp. softcover 2009
Price: $35.00
About the Book
Buffy the Vampire Slayer transcended its cult-comic roots to achieve television success, spawning the spinoff series Angel and an academic movement along the way.
This scholarly treatment takes a multidisciplinary approach to Buffy’s fandom, which has expressed itself through fiction, videos, music, art, and other media. Ten essays analyze the sociology and anthropology of the fan community and how it uses the Internet to share its passion.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Introduction 1
PART 1—FANDOMS AS COMMUNITIES
I’ve Got a Little List, or, “You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over SunnydaleU?” ELIZABETH L. RAMBO 7
Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual CommunitiesMARY KIRBY-DIAZ 18
PART 2—SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FANDOMS
RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online LifeREBECCA BLEY 43
So, What’s the Story? Story-Oriented and Series-Oriented Fans: A Complex of Behaviors MARY KIRBY-DIAZ 62
PART 3—THE BRONZE AGE: 1997–2001
“In the World, But Not of It”: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Online Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Community
ASIM ALI 87
Community, Language, and Postmodernism at the Mouth of Hell
ASIM ALI 107
PART 4—PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITIES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE
“Fake It Till You Make It”: Understanding Media Addiction and Buffy the Vampire SlayerDAVID KOCIEMBA 127
The Problematic Definition of “Fan”: A Survey of Fannish Involvement in the Buffyverse CLAUDIA REBAZA 147
“Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy”: An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet
KATHRYN HILL 172
Glossary 197
Selected Bibliography 199
About the Contributors 205
Index 207
About the Author
Mary Kirby-Diaz is a professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College in New York, with a study specialty in family, pedagogy and community mediation. A Buffy fan, she began researching the show’s popular culture in 2003.
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