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1 online resource 9xii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
I.B. Tauris Film & Media Studies 2018.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"Although ostensibly presented as?light entertainment,? the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s?slasher? craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods ; as well as exploring new concepts on?cosmic dread? and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly . Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond."-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Whedon, Joss, 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program) -- History and criticism.
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Whedon, Joss, 1964- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhxqwXm7xdhx8KmTwXTpP |
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Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program) |
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Fantasy television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Television -- Production and direction -- United States -- History and criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
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Fantasy television programs |
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Television -- Production and direction |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjrQjPchkHWbg9kyfhcTMd
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Jowett, Lorna, 1971- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjG886QgwkqCVkQkVv39fy
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| Added Title |
Joss Whedon versus the horror tradition |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Joss Whedon vs. the horror tradition. London : I.B. Tauris, 2019 1788311027 9781788311021 (OCoLC)1055679211 |
| ISBN |
9781786725417 (electronic bk.) |
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178672541X (electronic bk.) |
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9781786735416 (ebook) |
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1786735415 (ebook) |
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9781788318938 (ebook) |
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1788318935 |
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9781788311021 (hardcover) |
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1788311027 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781788318938. |
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