Buffy meets the academy
Subtitle: essays on the episodes and scripts as text
By: edited by Kevin K. Durand.
Contributors: Durand, Kevin K., 1967-
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786443550
Subjects: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : pop culture meets the academy / Kevin K. Durand; title: Power and the Buffy Canon. Canon fodder : assembling the text / Kevin K. Durand; title: Canon fodder revisited : Buffy meets the Bard / Brent Linsley; title: Genre and the impact on storytelling in season eight / Leigh Clemons; title: Buffy's seven-season initiation  /    David Fritts; title: It's all about power / Kevin K. Durand; title: Buffy never goes it alone : the rhetorical construction of sisterhood in the final season / Susan Payne; title: Mulliken and Valerie Renegar; title: Buffy meets the classics. King Lear, Buffy, and Apocalyptic revisionism / Clinton P.E. Atchley; title: Grimm realities : Buffy and the uses of folklore / Elizabeth Bridges; title: The failed quest for "anti-self-consciousness" / Denise Tischler Millstein; title: Buffy's insight into Wollstonecraft and Mill / Kevin K. Durand; title: Buffy, the Scoobies, and beyond : Buffy's dream in "Surprise" / Melanie Wilson - Complexes my mother left me : Spike meets Robin Wood / Brent Linsley; title: She believes in me : Angel, Spike, and redemption / Melanie Wilson; title: Cordelia Chase as failed feminist gesture / AmiJo Comeford; title: Why the Cheese Man is an integral part of restless / Melanie Wilson; title: Wesley as tragic hero / Rebecca Bobbitt; title: The battle against the patriarchal forces of darkness / Kevin K. Durand; title: Buffy and the classroom. Concepts of identity when Nancy Drew meets Buffy / Lauren Schultz; title: The high school education of Buffy Summers / Keith Fudge; title: Keeping Buffy in the classroom / Tamara Wilson.