Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Undead TV

Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Edited by: Elana Levine and Lisa Parks
With contributions by: Mary Celeste Kearney and Susan Murray

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390152

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About this book

Critical studies of the popular television show, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.

Author / Editor information

Elana Levine is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, also published by Duke University Press.

Lisa Parks is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Aiming its Mr. Pointy at preconceived ideas about the show, this collection tackles Buffy from cultural, economic, and aesthetic angles. Cancellation has clearly done nothing to blunt the show’s cutting edge. Read it along with Joss Whedon’s new eighth-season comic book and you’ll agree: Buffy is dead—long live Buffy!”—Heather Hendershot, author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip

“Keenly attentive to gender, age, race, and institutional politics, the essays in this collection reverberate with the clarity, cogency, and force of high-quality television studies scholarship. Undead TV is indispensable reading not only for those interested in one of the most important American television series but also for anyone who wants to be informed about the current practices, investments, and prospects of television and other associated media.”—Diane Negra, coeditor of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

“I was incredibly excited to have the chance to read Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and feel like I was doing ‘academic’ work while still obsessing over my favorite show. . . . [T]he articles about media and marketing aspects of TV shows that use Buffy as an example are interesting, and deserve a reading by any Buffy scholar. As Undead TV proves to its readers, a successful TV show becomes great only after it is already dead. But like any Buffy fan knows, when things die, they’re never really dead, and it is in this undead experience that things really start to get interesting.”

-- Chelsey Clammer Feminist Review blog

“This intelligent collection of essays offers a critical commentary on both the ongoing cultural significance of the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and on media and television industries in general. Undead TV makes a great resource for anyone interested in television theory as well as offering fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer an insightful look into the program’s continuingly relevant themes and messages.”

-- Maryanne Mangano M/C Reviews

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Elana Levine and Lisa Parks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We All Love Buffy Mary Celeste Kearney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. I Know What You Did Last Summer: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Crossover Teen Stardom Susan Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Vampire Hunters: The Scheduling and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in the United Kingdom Annette Hill and Ian Calcutt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. The Epistemological Stakes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television Criticism and Marketing Demands Amelie Hastie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5. “Did Anyone Ever Explain to You What ‘Secret Identity’ Means?” Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel Cynthia Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6. At Stake: Angel’s Body, Fantasy Masculinity, and Queer Desire in Teen Television Allison McCracken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7. Buffy as Femme Fatale: The Cult Heroine and the Male Spectator Jason Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8. Buffy and the “New Girl Order”: Defining Feminism and Femininity Elana Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 40 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: November 2, 2007
ISBN: 9780822390152