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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wilcox, Rhonda

Titel

In ‘The Demon Section of the Card Catalogue’: Buffy Studies and Television Studies

Ist Teil von

• Critical studies in television, 2006-03, Vol.1 (1), p.37-48

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, has inspired vigorous critical discussion from the start, and now boasts one of the biggest shelves in the scholarly television library. In fact, one might say the series is helping to fight the forces that sometimes demonise television studies. The earliest writings about Buffy generally recognised as scholarly came in the summer of 1999. Written by Michael Adams, A. Susan Owen, and by Wilcox, these articles give some inkling of the variety of disciplinary angles from which the series can be viewed. From the start, then, Buffy's language, feminism, and purposeful symbolism (semiotic and narratological) have engaged critics.