Buffy Goes Dark
Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television
Lynne Y. Edwards
Contents
Foreword / David Lavery — Preface : at sixes and sevens in Sunnydale — section 1: Auteurs (writers, directors, producers). Marti Noxon : Buffy’s other genius / David Perry — Understanding the Espensode / David Kociemba — section 2: Characters (lovers, fans, and heroes). Evil, skanky, and kinda gay : lesbian images and issues / Alissa Wilts — ‘It’s complicated– because of Tara’ : history, identity politics, and the straight white male author / Brandy Ryan — The Candide of Sunnydale : Andrew Wells as satire of pop culture and marketing trends / Ira Shull and Anne Shull — section 3: Story (flesh, style, and purpose). Buffy and the death of style / Michael Adams — ‘Set on this Earth like a bubble’ : word as flesh in the dark seasons / Rhonda V. Wilcox — Bodies and narrative in crisis : figures of rupture and chaos in seasons six and seven / Gregory Erickson and Jennifer Lemberg — Reality bites : Buffy in the UPN years / Lynne Y. Edwards and Carly Haines — section 4: Seasons (at sixes and sevens). ‘Just a family legend’ : the hidden logic of Buffy’s ‘chosen family’ / Agnes B. Curry and Josef Velazquez — Yeats’s entropic gyre and season six / Elizabeth L. Rambo — Season six and the supreme ordeal / Paul Hawkins — Kiss kiss, stake stake : storytelling and the philosophical pleasures of season seven / James B. South — Appendix: Episode guide for Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel — About the contributors.
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Details
ISBN | 9780786436767 |
Genre | Movie/Media Tie-In; Performing Arts |
Publication Date | Dec-09 |
Publisher | McFarland |
Editor | Lynne Y. Edwards |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 226 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Editor | Lynne Y. Edwards |
Subject | Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (Television Program); Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Performing Arts / Television / General; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism |
BookID | 1558 |