Why Buffy matters: the art of Buffy the vampire slayer
Examines recurring themes and patterns of Buffy the Vampire Hunter, including the hero myth, naming symbolism, Buffy's relationship with Spike, the imagery of light, and redemption, and offers commentary on noteworthy episodes.
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| Summary: | Examines recurring themes and patterns of Buffy the Vampire Hunter, including the hero myth, naming symbolism, Buffy's relationship with Spike, the imagery of light, and redemption, and offers commentary on noteworthy episodes. |
| Physical Description: | IX, 246 S. |
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honda Wilcox, a
world authority on Buff/ the Vampire Slayer, has been
T writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens.
li.
This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought,
a celebration of the series that she proposes as an aesthetic test case for television.
Buff/ will endure as art, she argues, because it explores television s possibilities for
long-term construction and produces individual episodes that are powerful in their
own right. She examines therefore the larger patterns that extend through many
episodes: the hero myth; the imagery of light; naming symbolism; Spike, sex and
redemption; the similarities between Buffy Summers and Harry Potter. She then
moves in to focus on individual episodes, such as the Buffy musical Once More,
with Feeling , the largely silent Hush and the dream episode Restless ( T.S.Eliot
comes to television ). She also examines Buffy s ways of making meaning
-
from
literary narrative and symbolism to visual imagery and sound.
Combining great intelligence and wit, written for the wide Buffy readership,
this is the worthy companion to the show that has claimed and kept the minds
and hearts of watchers worldwide.
R.HOnDÄ
W
î
LC OX
isan
English
professor and television scholar. She is co-editor
of Fighting the Forces: What s at Stake in
Buffy the Vampire Stayer and of Slayage: The
Online International Journal of Buffy Studies.
She has been described by CNN as the Mother
of Buffy studies .
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ι
Part I: Panorama
1. There Will Never Be
а
Very Special Bujfy: Symbol and Language
17
2.
Pain as Bright as Steel: Mythic Striving and Light as Pain
30
3.
I Think I Can Name Myself: Naming and Identity in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
46
4.
When Harry Met
Buñy: Buñy
Summers, Harry Potter, and Heroism
66
5.
Every Night I Save You: Buffy, Spike, Sex, and Redemption
79
6.
Show Me Your World: Exiting the Text and the Globalization of Buffi/
90
Part II: Tight Focus
7.
Love and Loss: It s Not Over
Time, Love, and Loss in Surprise VInnocence
ш
8.
Laughter: For Those of Us in Our Audience Who Are Me
Xander, Laughter, and The
Zeppo
129
9.
Fear: The Princess Screamed Once
Power, Silence, and Fear in Hush
146
10.
Poetry: T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Restless
162
11.
Death: They re Going to Find a Body
Quality Television and the Supernatural in The Body
174
12.
Song: Singing and Dancing and Burning and Dying
Once More, with Textual Feeling
191
vi
Why
Buffy
Matters
Episode Guide
206
Notes
211
Bibliography of Works Cited
222
Index
236
|
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ЅЛ
honda Wilcox, a
world authority on Buff/ the Vampire Slayer, has been
T\ writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens.
li. \\
This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought,
a celebration of the series that she proposes as an aesthetic test case for television.
Buff/ will endure as art, she argues, because it explores television's possibilities for
long-term construction and produces individual episodes that are powerful in their
own right. She examines therefore the larger patterns that extend through many
episodes: the hero myth; the imagery of light; naming symbolism; Spike, sex and
redemption; the similarities between Buffy Summers and Harry Potter. She then
moves in to focus on individual episodes, such as the Buffy musical 'Once More,
with Feeling', the largely silent 'Hush' and the dream episode 'Restless' ('T.S.Eliot
comes to television'). She also examines Buffy's ways of making meaning
-
from
literary narrative and symbolism to visual imagery and sound.
Combining great intelligence and wit, written for the wide Buffy readership,
this is the worthy companion to the show that has claimed and kept the minds
and hearts of watchers worldwide.
R.HOnDÄ
W
î
LC OX
isan
English
professor and television scholar. She is co-editor
of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in
Buffy the Vampire Stayer and of Slayage: The
Online International Journal of Buffy Studies.
She has been described by CNN as 'the Mother
of Buffy studies'.
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ι
Part I: Panorama
1. There Will Never Be
а
"Very Special" Bujfy: Symbol and Language
17
2.
Pain as Bright as Steel: Mythic Striving and Light as Pain
30
3.
I Think I Can Name Myself: Naming and Identity in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
46
4.
When Harry Met
Buñy: Buñy
Summers, Harry Potter, and Heroism
66
5.
Every Night I Save You: Buffy, Spike, Sex, and Redemption
79
6.
Show Me Your World: Exiting the Text and the Globalization of Buffi/
90
Part II: Tight Focus
7.
Love and Loss: It's Not Over
Time, Love, and Loss in "Surprise'VInnocence"
ш
8.
Laughter: For Those of Us in Our Audience Who Are Me
Xander, Laughter, and "The
Zeppo"
129
9.
Fear: The Princess Screamed Once
Power, Silence, and Fear in "Hush"
146
10.
Poetry: T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: "Restless"
162
11.
Death: They're Going to Find a Body
Quality Television and the Supernatural in "The Body"
174
12.
Song: Singing and Dancing and Burning and Dying
Once More, with Textual Feeling
191
vi
Why
Buffy
Matters
Episode Guide
206
Notes
211
Bibliography of Works Cited
222
Index
236 |
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