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Joss Whedon vs. the horror tradition : the production of genre in Buffy and beyond / edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.W49 J69 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whedon, Joss, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.
- Whedon, Joss.
- Whedon, Joss, 1964-.
- Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)--History and criticism.
- Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program).
- Fantasy television programs--United States--History and criticism.
- Fantasy television programs.
- Horror television programs--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror television programs.
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Television--Production and direction.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Television--Production and direction--United States--History and criticism.
- Television.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B.Tauris, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Whedon studies and the ghost of horror / Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett
- Part I. (Under)groundwork: horro concepts and conventions in the Whedonverse.
- The slasher template: Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. John Carpenter's Halloween / Clayton Dillard
- The sonic horror of "Hush" / Selma A. Purac
- "The body" that will not sit up: shock, stasis, and the negative space of the horror genre / Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
- The melancholy musical: horror and avant-garde strategies in "Once more, with feeling" / Anne Golden
- Angel's dreams, our nightmares: oneiric horror in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Cynthia Burkhead
- Dollhouse's terrible places: hauntings, abjection, and the repressed / Bronwen Calvert
- Inscription and subversion: The cabin in the woods and the postmodern horror tradition / Stephanie Graves
- Part II. Mutant enemies: tv horror, industry, and influence
- "For all I know, it could be hilarious or it could suck": situating the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) in period vampire comedy / Jerry D. Metz Jr.
- Monstrous puppet masters: negotiating violence and horror in the Whendon tele-verse / Stacey Abbott
- Forever knight, Angel, and Supernatural: a genealogy of television horror/crime hybrids / Erin Giannini
- Part III. "It's about power": revisiting Whedon's "revisionist" horro
- Whedon, feministm, and the possibility of feminist horror on television / Lorna Jowett
- Weird Whedon: cosmic dread and sublime alterity in the Whedonverse / Kristopher Karl Woofter
- "All the better to know you": investigating the hybrid monster and allegories of self/other in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / K. Brenna Wardell
- Horror and the last frontier: monstrous borders and bodies in Firefly and Westworld / Karen Herland
- The half-lives of horror: the differential embodiments of Dollhouse / Alanna Thain
- Appendix I. The work of Joss Whedon and the horror tradition: a selected bibliography / compiled by Alysa Hornick
- Appendix II. Foundational works in horror and related scholarship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781788311021
- 1788311027
- OCLC:
- 1085945311
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