Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Braun, Beth

Titel

The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Ambiguity of Evil in Supernatural Representations

Ist Teil von

• The journal of popular film and television, 2000-07, Vol.28 (2), p.88-94

Ort / Verlag

Washington, D. C: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Recent years have seen a marked increase in the number of television shows with a supernatural bent. The Warner Bros. Network is at the forefront of this trend, combining inhuman characters such as witches, vampires, and aliens with teen angst in the shows Charmed, Roswell, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although these shows taken together might represent a mini-trend in recent television programming, there is of course nothing new in using supernatural settings and characters to play out narratives of good versus evil. This is apparent from an abundance of literary examples, to say nothing of hundreds of films focusing on these themes. And one does not even have to look far within the history of television to find other examples. Warner Bros, may only be following the lead of other popular shows such as the long-running X-Files, which in turn may have been influenced by the likes of The Twilight Zone. Other early examples of the genre include series such as Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.