| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168). |
| Contents |
Why does Buffy matter? / Amanda Hobson -- Buffy, Angel, and the complications of the soul: a collaborative perspective on the origin episodes / Dev Kumar Bose and Esther Liberman-Cuenca -- Patriarchy strikes back: power and perception in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Nadine Farghaly -- A layered message of resistance: Buffy, violence, and the double bind / Mona Rocha -- What's at stake?: the use of simulacra to re(construct) identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Cassie Hemstrom -- Brain vs. brawn: an examination of the use of intelligence and violence by the villains in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- The rage of Willow: malefic witchcraft fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lisa M. Vetere -- "We're your arch-nemesises.ses": Buffy and the Trio: the americanization of a mythological motif -- Caleb, the First Evil, and "that most precious of all mankind": the notion of goodness / Bonnie Jett Adams -- I date dead people: Buffy, Bella, Sookie, and the lure of the dead boyfriend / Ruth Caillouet -- My first time: theological diversity, the rhetoric of conversion, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Michael Aaron Perry -- More than just a spin-off: the enduring allure of Angel / U. Melissa Anyiwo. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Buffy Conquers the Academy represents the cusp of pioneering research into a television show that has inspired a wealth of academic study since its cancellation in 2003. As a reflection of the current obsession with all things vampiric, this text offers an alternative perspective on the vampire myth from the point of view of scholars in the field and thereby celebrates the continuing existence of Buffy Studies as an endlessly fruitful academic discipline that is truly global and interdiscipli ... |
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Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)
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Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program) (OCoLC)fst01389203
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character)
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Heroines on television.
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Popular culture -- Congresses.
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Popular culture -- United States -- Congresses.
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Popular culture.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00840476
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Heroines on television. (OCoLC)fst01744396
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| Added Author |
Anyiwo, U. Melissa.
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Szatek, Karoline.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Buffy conquers the academy 144384831X (OCoLC)848162280 |
| ISBN |
9781443864787 (electronic bk.) |
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1443864781 (electronic bk.) |
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