Buffy meets the academy : essays on the episodes and scripts as text /
Durand, Kevin K. J.(Kevin Karl Jones),1967-
Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Co.,
c2009.
"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. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism(s), redemption, patriarchy, identity and education"--Provided by publisher.
"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. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism(s), redemption, patriarchy, identity and education"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : pop culture meets the academy / Kevin K. Durand -- Power and the Buffy Canon. Canon fodder : assembling the text / Kevin K. Durand -- Canon fodder revisited : Buffy meets the Bard / Brent Linsley -- Genre and the impact on storytelling in season eight / Leigh Clemons -- Buffy's seven-season initiation / David Fritts -- It's all about power / Kevin K. Durand -- Buffy never goes it alone : the rhetorical construction of sisterhood in the final season / Susan Payne-Mulliken and Valerie Renegar -- Buffy meets the classics. King Lear, Buffy, and apocalyptic revisionism / Clinton P.E. Atchley -- Grimm realities : Buffy and the uses of folklore / Elizabeth Bridges -- The failed quest for "anti-self-consciousness" / Denise Tischler Millstein -- Buffy's insight into Wollstonecraft and Mill / Kevin K. Durand -- Buffy, the Scoobies, and beyond. Buffy's dream in "Surprise" / Melanie Wilson -- Complexes my mother left me : Spike meets Robin Wood / Brent Linsley -- She believes in me : Angel, Spike, and redemption / Melanie Wilson -- Cordelia Chase as failed feminist gesture / AmiJo Comeford -- Why the Cheese Man is an integral part of Restless / Melanie Wilson -- Wesley as tragic hero / Rebecca Bobbitt -- The battle against the patriarchal forces of darkness / Kevin K. Durand -- Buffy and the classroom. Concepts of identity when Nancy Drew meets Buffy / Lauren Schultz -- The high school education of Buffy Summers / Keith Fudge -- Keeping Buffy in the classroom / Tamara Wilson.
Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)