Research Catalog

Title

Why Buffy matters : the art of Buffy the vampire slayer / Rhonda Wilcox.

Author

Wilcox, Rhonda

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Description

ix, 246 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines recurring themes and patterns of Buffy the Vampire Hunter, including the hero myth, naming symbolism, Buffy's relationship with Spike, the imagery of light, and redemption, and offers commentary on noteworthy episodes.

Subject

• Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character)
• Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-235) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. There will never be a "very special" Buffy : symbol and language -- 2. Pain as bright as steel : mythic striving and light as pain -- 3. I think I can name myself : naming and identity in Buffy the vampire slayer -- 4. When Harry met Buffy : Buffy Summers, Harry Potter, and heroism -- 5. Every night I save you : Buffy, Spike, sex, and redemption -- 6. Show me your world : exiting the text and the globalization of Buffy -- 7. Love and loss, it's not over : time, love, and loss in "Surprise"/"Innocence" -- 8. Laughter, for those of us in the audience who are me : Xander, laughter, and the "The Zeppo" -- 9. Fear, the princess screamed once : power, silence, and fear in "Hush" -- 10. Poetry, T.S. Eliot comes to television : "Restless" -- 11. Death, they're going to find a body : quality television and the supernatural in the "The body" -- 12. Song, singing and dancing and burning and dying : once more, with textual feeling.

ISBN

• 1845110218 (hbk.)
• 1845110293 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 9781845110215
• 9781845110291

OCLC

• 60513984
• SCSB-11319333

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library