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The Whedonverse Catalog

Don Macnaughtan
The Whedonverse Catalog Book PDF

Author : Don Macnaughtan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781476670591

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The Whedonverse Catalog by Don Macnaughtan Pdf

Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.

The Whedonverse Catalog

Don Macnaughtan
The Whedonverse Catalog Book PDF

Author : Don Macnaughtan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781476631608

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The Whedonverse Catalog by Don Macnaughtan Pdf

Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.

American Reference Books Annual

Juneal M. Chenoweth
American Reference Books Annual Book PDF

Author : Juneal M. Chenoweth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440869143

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American Reference Books Annual by Juneal M. Chenoweth Pdf

Read professional, fair reviews by practicing academic, public, and school librarians and subject-area specialists that will enable you to make the best choices from among the latest reference resources. This newest edition of American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) provides librarians with insightful, critical reviews of print and electronic reference resources released or updated in 2017-2018, as well as some from 2019 that were received in time for review in the publication. By using this invaluable guide to consider both the positive and negative aspects of each resource, librarians can make informed decisions about which new reference resources are most appropriate for their collections and their patrons' needs. Collection development librarians who are working with limited budgets—as is the case in practically every library today—will be able to maximize the benefit from their monetary resources by selecting what they need most for their collection, while bypassing materials that bring limited value to their specific environment.

Slaying Is Hell

Alyson R. Buckman,Juliette C. Kitchens,Katherine A. Troyer
Slaying Is Hell Book PDF

Author : Alyson R. Buckman,Juliette C. Kitchens,Katherine A. Troyer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647500

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Slaying Is Hell by Alyson R. Buckman,Juliette C. Kitchens,Katherine A. Troyer Pdf

The films, television shows, and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship, and saving the world. This collection of essays reveals the ways in which the Whedonverse treats the trauma of ordinary life with similar gravitas as trauma created by the supernatural, illustrating how memories are lost, transformed, utilized, celebrated, revered, questioned, feared, and rebuffed within the storyworlds created by Joss Whedon and his collaborators. Through a variety of approaches and examinations, the essays in this book seek to understand how the themes of trauma, memory, and identity enrich one another in the Whedonverse and beyond. As the authors present different arguments and focus on various texts, the essays work to build a mosaic of the trauma found in beloved works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and more. The book concludes with a meta-analysis that explores the allegations of various traumas made against Joss Whedon himself.

Re-Entering the Dollhouse

Heather M. Porter,Michael Starr
Re Entering the Dollhouse Book PDF

Author : Heather M. Porter,Michael Starr
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679907

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Re-Entering the Dollhouse by Heather M. Porter,Michael Starr Pdf

Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (Dollhouses) that program individuals with temporary personalities and abilities. The protagonist assumes a different identity each episode--her defining characteristic a lack of individuality. Through this obtuse premise, the show interrogated free will, morality and sex, and in the process its own construction of fantasy and its audience. A decade on, the world is--for better or worse--catching up with Dollhouse's provocative vision. This collection of new essays examines the series' relevance in the context of today's social and political issues and media landscape.

Blood, Body and Soul

Tamy Burnett,AmiJo Comeford
Blood Body and Soul Book PDF

Author : Tamy Burnett,AmiJo Comeford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476646275

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Blood, Body and Soul by Tamy Burnett,AmiJo Comeford Pdf

The ever-popular "Whedonverse" television shows--Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse--have inspired hundreds of articles and dozens of books. Curiously, the focus of much of the scholarship invokes philosophical, ethical, metaphysical and other cerebral perspectives. Yet, these shows are action-adventure shows, telling stories through physical bodies of many varied and unique forms. Characters fight and die, suffer grave injuries and traumas, and are physically transformed. Their bodies bear the brunt of their battles against evil, corruption and injustice. Through 17 insightful and captivating essays, this collection centers the physical spectacle of these televisual series. Chapters examine how both disabled and super-powered individuals navigate their differing levels of ability; how the practice of medicine and medical practitioners are represented; and how wellness is understood and depicted, both physically and mentally. Other essays focus on storylines involving specific body parts, the intersection of literal and metaphorical trauma and the processes of recovery from injury, illness and impairment. Each author offers a unique and thought-provoking analysis in an area previously under-explored or altogether missing from existing scholarship on the Whedonverse.

Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon

Lewis Call
Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon Book PDF

Author : Lewis Call
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675060

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Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon by Lewis Call Pdf

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy. Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Joss Whedon, Anarchist?

James Rocha,Mona Rocha
Joss Whedon Anarchist Book PDF

Author : James Rocha,Mona Rocha
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476673837

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Joss Whedon, Anarchist? by James Rocha,Mona Rocha Pdf

 Joss Whedon has created numerous TV series, movies, comics and one sing-along-blog, all of which focus on societal problems in the metaphorical guise of monsters-of-the-week and over-arching big-bads. The present work examines structural violence through interdimensional law firm Wolfram & Hart's legal representation of evil. We explore the limits of consent through the Rossum Corporation's coercion and manipulation. We rehearse the struggle to find meaningful freedom from the crew of Serenity. This book traces a theme of anarchist theory through the multiple strings of the Whedonverse--all of his works show how ordinary heroes can unite for the love of humanity to save the world from hierarchy and paternalism.

Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie

Frederick Blichert
Joss Whedon s Big Damn Movie Book PDF

Author : Frederick Blichert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476671994

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Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie by Frederick Blichert Pdf

When Joss Whedon's television show Firefly (2002-2003) was cancelled, devoted fans cried foul and demanded more--which led to the 2005 feature film Serenity. Both the series and the film were celebrated for their melding of science fiction and western iconography, dystopian settings, underdog storylines, and clever fast-paced dialogue. Firefly has garnered a great deal of scholarly attention--less so, Serenity. This collection of new essays, the first focusing exclusively on the film, examines its depictions of race, ableism, social engineering and systems of power, and its status as a crime film, among other topics.

Transmediating the Whedonverse(s)

Juliette C. Kitchens,Julie L. Hawk
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Author : Juliette C. Kitchens,Julie L. Hawk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030246167

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Transmediating the Whedonverse(s) by Juliette C. Kitchens,Julie L. Hawk Pdf

This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon. As such, the book addresses the ways in which Whedon’s storyworlds, or ‘verses, employ transmedia, both intrinsically as texts and extrinsically as these texts are consumed and, in some cases, reworked, by audiences. This collection walks readers through fan and scholar-fan engagement, intrinsic textual transmediality, and Whedon’s lasting influence on televisual and transmedia texts. In closing, the editors argue for the need to continue research into how the Whedonverse(s) lend themselves to transmedial study, engage audiences in ways that take advantage of multiple media, and encourage textual internalization of these engagements within audiences.

Spoofing the Vampire

Simon Bacon
Spoofing the Vampire Book PDF

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647395

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Spoofing the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

The Cabin in the Woods

Susanne Kord
The Cabin in the Woods Book PDF

Author : Susanne Kord
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800855205

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The Cabin in the Woods by Susanne Kord Pdf

The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard and co-authored by Goddard and Joss Whedon of Buffy-fame, was famously described by co-author Whedon as his ‘loving hate letter’ to horror. Interviews with Whedon reveal that his struggles with modern cinematic horror are not merely emotional, but intensely philosophical. This book is the first to read Cabin as a philosophical metatext that asks what horror offers audiences and why audiences accept. Like any good philosophy, the film offers no answers but raises questions: what ‘choices’ are possible in a pre-determined universe? How do we, the audience, see the victims of violence, and with what ethical consequences? And finally, the most fraught question of all: why do we keep looking?

Pop Culture in the Whedonverse

Valerie Frankel
Pop Culture in the Whedonverse Book PDF

Author : Valerie Frankel
Publisher : Litcrit Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692240713

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Pop Culture in the Whedonverse by Valerie Frankel Pdf

Speed, Toy Story, X-Men, Alien: Resurrection, Roseanne, Parenthood, Superman/Batman. Even outside Buffy, Firefly and Avengers, Joss Whedon has written stacks of scripts, along with many series of comic books. His signature style offers strong women, sudden tragedies, and clever quips. But even more than these, he's known for the pop culture references: Under his watch, Iron Man calls Hawkeye "Legolas," Buffy dresses as Red Riding Hood and snarks, "Back off, Pink Ranger!" Wolverine makes sports metaphors, and Kitty Pryde uses Buffyspeak. Marty from Cabin quotes the X-Files and reads Curious George. Captain Mal has read Coleridge and the Bible but doesn't know the Mona Lisa. Genre-savvy Angel and Spike become their Comic-Con costumes. By now, hundreds of shows recognize the fannish delight these moments bring, offering hundreds of their own nods to Firefly and Buffy. Within this volume are all Whedon's references from AA to zombies, shwarma to Star Wars, from every project - script treatments to shows to one-shot comics, for the truly avid Whedon fans.

Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait

David Lavery
Joss Whedon A Creative Portrait Book PDF

Author : David Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857723079

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Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait by David Lavery Pdf

Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After establishing himself as a premier cult creator, the man who gave us great television with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse and web series Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog, as well as comic books including Fray and Astonishing X-Men, finally became the filmmaker he'd long dreamed of being. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and making use of psychologist Howard Gruber's insights into the nature of the creative process, Joss, A Creative Portrait offers the first intellectual biography of Whedon, tracking his career arc from activated fan boy to film studies major, third generation television writer, successful script doctor, innovative television auteur, beloved cult icon, sought-after collaborator, and major filmmaker with Marvel's The Avengers. Film and television scholar and Whedon expert David Lavery traces Whedon's multi-faceted magic from its source - the early influences of parents and teachers, comics, books, movies, collaborators - to its artistic incarnation.

Science Fiction Double Feature

J. P. Telotte,Gerald Duchovnay
Science Fiction Double Feature Book PDF

Author : J. P. Telotte,Gerald Duchovnay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381830

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Science Fiction Double Feature by J. P. Telotte,Gerald Duchovnay Pdf

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narrative formulas, or character types for the almost surreal pleasure to be found in their sudden juxtapositions or narrative combination. With its own boundary-blurring nature - as both science and fiction, reality and fantasy - science fiction has played a key role in such cinematic cult formation. This volume examines that largely unexplored relationship, looking at how the sf film's own double nature neatly matches up with a persistent double vision common to the cult film. It does so by bringing together an international array of scholars to address key questions about the intersections of sf and cult cinema: how different genre elements, directors, and stars contribute to cult formation; what role fan activities, including con participation, play in cult development; and how the occulted or bad sf cult film works. The volume pursues these questions by addressing a variety of such sf cult works, including Robot Monster (1953), Zardoz (1974), A Boy and His Dog (1975), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Space Truckers (1996), Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004), and Iron Sky (2012). What these essays afford is a revealing vision of both the sf aspects of much cult film activity and the cultish aspects of the whole sf genre.