Buffy conquers the academy
Subtitle: conference papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations
By: edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781443848312
Subjects: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character); Heroines on television; Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-168).
Table of contents: title: Why does Buffy matter? / Amanda Hobson; title: Buffy, Angel, and the complications of the soul: a collaborative perspective on the origin episodes / Dev Kumar Bose and Esther Liberman-Cuenca; title: Patriarchy strikes back: power and perception in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Nadine Farghaly; title: A layered message of resistance: Buffy, violence, and the double bind / Mona Rocha; title: What's at stake?: the use of simulacra to re(construct) identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Cassie Hemstrom; title: Brain vs. brawn: an examination of the use of intelligence and violence by the villains in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; title: The rage of Willow: malefic witchcraft fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lisa M. Vetere; title: "We're your arch-nemesises..ses": Buffy and the Trio: the americanization of a mythological motif; title: Caleb, the First Evil, and "that most precious of all mankind": the notion of goodness / Bonnie Jett Adams; title: I date dead people: Buffy, Bella, Sookie, and the lure of the dead boyfriend / Ruth Caillouet; title: My first time: theological diversity, the rhetoric of conversion, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Michael Aaron Perry; title: More than just a spin-off: the enduring allure of Angel / U. Melissa Anyiwo.