Research Catalog

Title

Reading the vampire slayer : the new, updated, unofficial guide to Buffy and Angel / edited by Roz Kaveney.

Publication

London ; New York : Tauris Parke Paperbacks ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaveney, Roz

Description

xiv, 322 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Essays and analysis of the television programs Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel. Includes an episode guide to all seven seasons of Buffy and to the first four seasons of Angel, as well a critical overview of those seasons' principal themes and structures.

Subject

• Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)
• Angel (Television program : 1999- )

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements, resources and contributors -- The regular, recurring or otherwise significant characters -- 1. She saved the world. A lot : an introduction to the themes and structures of Buffy and Angel / Roz Kaveney -- 2. Entropy as demon : Buffy in Southern California / Boyd Tonkin -- 3. Writing The Vampire Slayer : interviews with Jane Espenson and Steven S. DeKnight / Roz Kaveney -- 4. This was our world and they made it theirs : reading space and place in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Karen Sayer -- 5. What you are, what's to come : feminisms, citizenship and the divine in Buffy / Zoe-Jane Playdon -- 6. The only thing better than killing a slayer : heterosexuality and sex in Buffy the vampire slayer / Justine Larbalestier -- 7. Blood and choice : the theory and practice of family in Angel / Jennifer Stoy -- 8. They always mistake me for the character I play! : transformation, identity and role-play in the Buffyverse (and a defence of fine acting) / Ian Shuttleworth -- Episode guide.

ISBN

186064984X

OCLC

• 54899596
• SCSB-12356196

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library