Buffy Goes Dark by Lynne Y. Edwards

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression. The thirteen essays, divided into the perspectives of feminist, cultural, auteur and fan studies, explore the popular series' conclusion, providing a multifaceted examination of Buffy's most controversial two seasons'--Provided by publisher.

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.