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The Slayer and the Slayerettes: Buffy and the Cluster Theory of Vocation
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2020-10, Vol.53 (5), p.1023-1045
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer invites its viewers to share in the central characters' discernment about what would be, for each of them, the most fulfilling life. However, circumstances force Buffy and her friends to search for that answer without appeal to the typical categories of commercial society. While members of Buffy's inner circle—Giles, Willow, and Xander—work in more traditional occupations (as librarian, student, and construction worker, respectively), these roles do not fulfill them. Their deepest commitments in life are to the work they perform with Buffy. The show therefore invites viewers to think about life's fulfillment without appeal to the usual categories of commercial society. Instead, it appeals to an idiom that is older and less familiar, once common but now generally reserved for religious contexts: that of vocation.