Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon

New Essays
Herausgeber: Waggoner, Erin B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has remained an enduring feature of late 1990s pop culture, spawning television spin-offs, rabid fans, and significant scholarly inquiry. Though there have been numerous books devoted to the work of Joss Whedon, this collection of fifteen essays is the first to focus specifically on the sexual rhetoric found in his oeuvre, which includes Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dollhouse, and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, as well as Buffy. Topics covered include the role of virginity, lesbianism and homoeroticism in the shows and the comics, the nature of masculinity and femininity and gender stereotypes, an exploration of sexual binaries, and a ranking of the Buffy characters on the Kinsey scale of sexuality. Together these essays constitute a much-needed addition to the expanding body of Whedon gender scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780786447503
• ISBN-10: 0786447508
• Artikelnr.: 28179017

Autorenporträt

Erin B. Waggoner is currently an adjunct professor in Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
The Symbolic Gun in Willow's Love Life
(Erin B      Waggoner)     
Unthinkable Relationships: Vampire/Slayer and HIV Positive/Negative
(Todd Parks)     
"Lez-faux" Representations: How Buffy Season Eight Navigates the Politics
of Female Heteroflexibility
(Hélène Frohard-Dourlent)     
Triangulated Desire in Angel and Buffy
(Alyson R      Buckman)     
Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil
(Patricia Pender)     
Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in
Buffy Season Eight Comics
(Lewis Call)     
Anya as Feminist Model of Positive Female Sexuality
(Tamy Burnett)     
Images of Paraphilia in the Whedonverse
(Don Tresca)     
Losing It: The Construction of Virginity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Sara Swain)     
Nothing Left but Skin and Cartilage: The Body and Toxic Masculinity
(Rachel Luria)     
Virtually a Femme Fatale: The Case of Buffy's Faith
(Pnina Moldovano)     
The Role of Masculinity and Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
( Jessica Price)     
Exploitation of Bodies and Minds in Season One of Dollhouse
(Catherine Coker)     
The Companion as a Doll: The Female Enigma in Firefly and Dollhouse
(Nicholas Greco)     
Exploding Sexual Binaries in Buffy and Angel
(Kathryn Weber)     
About the Contributors     
Index