Research Catalog

Title

Joss Whedon vs. the horror tradition : the production of genre in Buffy and beyond / edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett.

Publication

• London : I.B.Tauris, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Woofter, Kristopher, 1971-
• Jowett, Lorna, 1971-

Description

xii, 331 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Whedon, Joss, 1964- > Criticism and interpretation
• 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
• Horror television programs > United States > History and criticism
• Horror films > United States > History and criticism
• Television > Production and direction > History and criticism. > United States
• Fantasy television programs
• Television > Production and direction
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-312) 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.

Call Number

MWES (Whedon, J.) 19-2886

ISBN

• 9781788311021
• 1788311027

OCLC

1085945311

Title

Joss Whedon vs. the horror tradition : the production of genre in Buffy and beyond / edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett.

Publisher

London : I.B.Tauris, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-312) and index.

Local Note

ED: DAWSON COLLEGE.

Added Author

Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- editor.

Jowett, Lorna, 1971- editor.

Research Call Number

MWES (Whedon, J.) 19-2886