Undead TV : essays on Buffy the vampire slayer / edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine, Elena, 1970-

Parks, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program).

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Summary:

When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories of its devoted viewers. Buffy stands out from much entertainment television by offering sharp, provocative commentaries on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and youth. Yet it has also been central to changing trends in television production and reception. As a flagship show for two U.S: "net-lets"-the WB and UPN-Buffy helped usher in the "post-network" era, and as the inspiration for an active fan base, it helped drive the proliferation of Web-based fan engagement.

In Undead TV, media studies scholars tackle the Buffy phenomenon and its many afterlives in popular culture, the television industry, the Internet, and academic criticism. Contributors engage with critical issues such as stardom, gender identity, spectatorship, fandom, and intertextuality. Collectively, they reveal how a vampire television series set in a sunny California suburb managed to provide some of the most biting social commentaries on the air while exposing the darker side of American life. By offering detailed engagements with Sarah Michelle Gellar's celebrity image, science-fiction fanzines, international and "youth" audiences, Buffy tie-in books, and Angel's body, Undead TV shows how this prime-time drama became a prominent marker of industrial, social, and cultural change.

Contents:

The changing face of teen television, or why we all love Buffy / Mary Celeste Kearney

I know what you did last summer / Susan Murray

Vampire hunters / Annette Hill and Ian Calcutt

The epistemological stakes of Buffy the vampire slayer / Amelie Hastie

"Did anyone ever explain to you what 'secret identity' means?" / Cynthia Fuchs

At stake / Allison McCracken

Buffy as femme fatale / Jason Middleton

Buffy and the "new girl order" / Elana Levine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-196) and index.

ISBN:

9780822340652

0822340658

9780822340430

0822340437

OCLC:

123767253