Buffy Meets the Academy

Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts
Herausgeber: Durand, Kevin K.

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Produktbeschreibung

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. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same serious attention that is paid to classic philosophy and other long-established fields. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism, redemption, patriarchy, identity and education. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780786443550
• ISBN-10: 0786443553
• Artikelnr.: 25905877

Autorenporträt

Kevin K. Durand is Math and Physics Professor at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Pop Culture Meets the Academy
KEVIN K. DURAND     
PART I. POWER AND THE BUFFY CANON
Canon Fodder
Assembling the Text
KEVIN K. DURAND     
Canon Fodder Revisited Buffy Meets the Bard
BRENT LINSLEY      .     
Genre and the Impact on Storytelling in Season Eight
LEIGH CLEMONS     
Buffy's Seven-Season Initiation
DAVID FRITTS      .     
It's All about Power
KEVIN K. DURAND     
Buffy Never Goes It Alone
The Rhetorical Construction of Sisterhood in the Final Season
SUSAN PAYNE-MULLIKEN and VALERIE RENEGAR     
PART II. BUFFY MEETS THE CLASSICS
King Lear, Buffy, and Apocalyptic Revisionism
CLINTON P.E. ATCHLEY     
Grimm Realities
Buffy and the Uses of Folklore
ELIZABETH BRIDGES     
The Failed Quest for "Anti-Self-Consciousness"
DENISE TISCHLER MILLSTEIN     
Buffy's Insight into Wollstonecraft and Mill
KEVIN K. DURAND     
PART III. BUFFY, THE SCOOBIES, AND BEYOND
Buffy's Dream in Surprise
MELANIE WILSON     
Complexes My Mother Left Me Spike Meets Robin Wood
BRENT LINSLEY     
She Believes in Me Angel, Spike, and Redemption
MELANIE WILSON     
Cordelia Chase as Failed Feminist Gesture
AMIJO COMEFORD     
Why the Cheese Man Is an Integral Part of Restless
MELANIE WILSON     
Wesley as Tragic Hero
REBECCA BOBBITT     
The Battle Against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness
KEVIN K. DURAND     
PART IV. BUFFY AND THE CLASSROOM
Concepts of Identity When Nancy Drew Meets Buffy
LAUREN SCHULTZ     
The High School Education of Buffy Summers
KEITH FUDGE      .     
Keeping Buffy in the Classroom
TAMARA WILSON     
About the Contributors     
Index