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Reading Joss Whedon / edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, David Lavery.

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Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Whedon, Joss, 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation.

9780815633648 (cloth : alk. paper)

0815633645 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780815610380 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0815610386 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Television and popular culture.

xv, 461 pages ; 26 cm.

Part One: Buffy the vampire slayer -- From beneath you, it foreshadows : why Buffy's first season matters / David Kociemba -- Hero's journey, heroine's return? : Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus myth / Janet K. Halfyard -- "It's like some primal, some animal force ... that used to be us" : animality, humanity, and moral careers in the Buffyverse / Ananya Mukherjea -- "Can I spend the night alone?" : segments and connections in "Conversations with dead people" / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Hey, respect the narrative flow much? : problematic storytelling in Buffy the vampire slayer / Richard S. Albright -- All Those apocalypses : disaster studies and community in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Linda J. Jencson -- Part Two: Angel -- "Enough of the action, let's get back to dancing" : Joss Whedon directs Angel / Stacey Abbott -- What the hell? : Angel's "The girl in question" / Cynthea Masson -- Part Three: Firefly and Serenity -- Firefly : of formats, franchises, and Fox / Matthew Pateman -- "Wheel Never Stops Turning" : space and time in Firefly and Serenity / Alyson R. Buckman -- Metaphoric unity and ending : sending and receiving Firefly's last "message" -- Part Four: Dollhouse -- Reflections in the pool : Echo, Narcissus, and the male gaze in Dollhouse / K. Dale Koontz -- "There is no me; I'm just a container" : law and the loss of personhood in Dollhouse / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Part Five: Beyond the box -- Joining the evil league of evil : the rhetoric of posthuman negotiation in Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog / Victoria Willis -- Buffy's season eight, image and text : superhero self-fashioning / Marni Stanley -- Watchers in the woods : meta-horror, genre hybridity, and reality TV critique in The cabin in the woods / Kristopher Karl Woofter -- Joss Whedon throws his mighty shield : Marvel's The Avengers as war movie / Ensley F. Guffey -- Part Six: Overarching topics -- Stuffing a rabbit in It : character, narrative, and the time in the Whedonverses / Lorna Jowett -- Adventures in the moral imagination : memory and identity in Whedon's narrative ethics / J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson -- Technology and magic : Joss Whedon's explorations of the mind / Jeffrey Bussolini -- From old heresies to future paradigms : Joss Whedon on body and soul / Gregory Erickson -- "Hot chicks with superpowers" : the contested feminism of Joss Whedon / Lauren Schultz -- A living history of Whedon studies, 1999-2013 / Tanya R. Cochran.

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