Truth of Buffy

Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality

AvEmily Dial-Driver,Sally Emmons-Featherston

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Seemingly the most fantastical of television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer proves on close examination to be firmly rooted in real-world concerns. In this collection of critical essays, 15 authors from several disciplines, including literature, the visual arts, theatre, philosophy, and political science, study ways in which Buffy illuminates viewers' real-life experiences.Topics include the series' complicated portrayals of the relationship between soul, morality, and identity; whether Buffy can truly be described as a feminist icon; stereotypes of Native Americans in the episode "Pangs"; the role of signs in the interaction between Buffy's aesthetics and audience; and the problem of power and underhanded politics in the Buffy universe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786437993

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Television inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Emily Dial-Driver is a professor of English at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma, and fiction editor of RSU’s Cooweescoowee: A Journal of Arts and Letters. Sally Emmons-Featherston is an associate professor of English at Rogers State University and the managing editor of Cooweescoowee. Jim Ford teaches humanities, philosophy, and religion at Rogers State University and is director of the honors program. His articles have been published in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and Honors in Practice. Carolyn Anne Taylor is an associate professor of political science at Rogers State University and previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She lives in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsPrefaceEmily Dial-Driver IntroductionJim Ford What’s It All About, Buffy? Victor Frank and BuffyEmily Dial-Driver Got Myself a Soul? The Puzzling Treatment of the Soul in BuffyJ. Renée Cox Not Just Another Love Song: Buffy’s Music as Representation of Emerging AdulthoodJacqueline Bach Is That Stereotype Dead? Working with and Against “Western” Stereotypes in BuffySally Emmons-Featherston Lord Acton Is Alive and Well in Sunnydale: Politics and Power in BuffyKenneth S. Hicks Willow’s Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by ConnectionsFrances E. Morris Is It Art? The Artful “Hush” of St. Francis and the Gentlemen Blue MeaniesGary Moeller Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Brechtian Techniques in BuffyDavid Blakely “The Ants Go Marching”: Effective Lyrics in Buffy EpisodesLori M. Butler “Love the One You’re With”: Developing XanderJ. Michael McKeon Texting Buffy: Allusions of Many KindsEmily Dial-Driver and Jesse Stallings “What Shall Cordelia Say?” Buffy as Morality Play for the Twenty-First Century’s Therapeutic EthosGregory J. Thompson and Sally Emmons-Featherston Witchy Women: Witchcraft in Buffy and in Contemporary African CultureJuliet Evusa “I’m Cookie Dough”: Exploring Buffy IconographyKenneth S. Hicks and Carolyn Anne Taylor A Life Well-Lived: Buffy and the Pursuit of HappinessJim Ford Appendix: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes Works Cited About the Contributors Index