At home in the Whedonverse:/ essays on domestic place, space and life./ edited by Juliette C. Kitchens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitchens, Juliette C., 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whedon, Joss, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.

Whedon, Joss.

Whedon, Joss, 1964-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii; 202 pages. ; 23cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or Whedon's own house in Much Ado About Nothing, his work collectively offers audiences the opportunity to question the ways we relate to and inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films and comics, this collection of new essays explores the diversity of home spaces in Whedon's many 'verses, and the complexity these spaces afford the narratives, characters, objects and relationships within them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Prometheus: Transhumanism and Proxemics in the Works of Joss Whedon / Dustin Dunaway Dunaway, Dustin 11

It's Joss Whedon's World and We're All Just Livin' in It: The "Closed Frame" of the Whedonverse / Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer Hendershott-Kraetzer, Kirk 27

Broken but Home: Institutions, Control and the Non-Place in Dollhouse / Catherine Pugh Pugh, Catherine 48

Seeking Safe Haven: Shelter and Self-Protection from Afterlife to Avengers: Age of Ultron / Valerie Estelle Frankel Frankel, Valerie Estelle 68

Domestic Space and Identity: Joss Whedon's Futuristic Frontier in Firefly / Melanie A. Marotta Marotta, Melanie A. 87

Scythe Matters: Performing Object Oriented Ontology on Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Julie L. Hawk Hawk, Julie L. 104

Deliver Us from Evil: Demons, Feminism and Rhetorical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Victoria Willis Willis, Victoria 122

Militarization of the Domestic Space: Positioning Buffy as a Post-Feminist Heroine through the Lens of Choice Feminism / Karen Walsh Walsh, Karen 142

Classrooms, Classrooms Everywhere, but Not to Slay or Think: The Domestic Learning Environments of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Melanie A. Jensen Jensen, Melanie A., Kyle William Bishop Bishop, Kyle William 165

A Home at the End of the World: The Future of Domesticity in the Whedonverse / Lisa K. Perdigao Perdigao, Lisa K. 182.

ISBN:

9781476667027

1476667020

OCLC:

974700289