Reading The Vampire Slayer - The New, Updated Unofficial Guide To Buffy And Angel
I wanted there to be a serious critical book out there that drew on good critical journalism as well as on academic criticism; I left the academy long ago and have some serious reservations about how it manages its affairs. It seemed to me that there were approaches to intelligent understanding of Buffy that might not come up in a purely academic set of studies, that a book which drew on several sorts of critical insight was going to be a useful one.
Hence, the contents list:
- "She saved the world. A lot"
- Some themes and structures in Buffy and Angel
- By Roz Kaveney
- Entropy as demon
- Buffy in Southern California
- By Boyd Tonkin
- Writing the Vampire Slayer
- Interviews with Jane Espenson and Steven S. DeKnight
- By Roz Kaveney
- This was our world and they made it theirs
- Reading space and place in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- By Karen Sayer
- What you are, what's to come
- Feminisms, citizenship and the divine in Buffy
- By Zoe-Jane Playdon
- The only thing better than killing a Slayer
- Heterosexuality and sex in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- By Justine Larbalestier
- Blood and choice
- The theory and practice of family in Angel
- By Jennifer Stoy
- They always mistake me for the character I play!
- Transformation, identity and role-play in the Buffyverse (and a defence of fine acting)
- By Ian Shuttleworth
- Episode guide
- By Roz Kaveney
Read an excerpt from Roz's chapter, "She saved the world. A lot." Some themes and structures in Buffy and Angel
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