num_pages: 400
description: Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Over the course of its seven-year run Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong complex female lead at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the shows cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history part celebration and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still decades later.Katzwith the help of the shows cast creators and crewreveals that although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender sexuality and feminism it was not free of internal strife controversy and shortcomings. Menboth on screen and offwould taint the shows reputation as a feminist masterpiece and changing networks amongst other factors would drastically alter the shows tone.Katz addresses these issues and more including interviews with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar Charisma Carpenter Emma Caulfield Amber Benson James Marsters Anthony Stewart Head Seth Green Marc Blucas Nicholas Brendon Danny Strong Tom Lenk Bianca Lawson Julie Benz Clare Kramer K. Todd Freeman Sharon Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends of the cast including Stacey Abrams Cynthia Erivo Lee Pace Claire Saffitz Tavi Gevinson and Selma Blair.Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.
language: English
title: Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts
publisher: Hachette Books