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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General
Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female
lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz
explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part
oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal
fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later. Katz-with
the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew-reveals that
although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender,
sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife,
controversy, and shortcomings. Men-both on screen and off-would
taint the show's reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing
networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show's
tone. Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews
with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma
Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth
Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk,
Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon
Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z.
Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends
of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace,
Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Into Every
Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom,
and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see
the world but how we exist within it.
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Duck Light
(Hardcover)
Gillian A Corsiatto; Edited by Jock MacKenzie; Illustrated by Alison Forsberg
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Elf Love
(Hardcover)
Jeffrey Krilla; Silas Deane
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R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
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Everyone can use a daily wake-up call.
Now in bite-size mantras, the abridged empathetic wit and wisdom
of the number one "New York Times" bestseller "He's Just Not That
Into You" will recharge and inspire your dating outlook one wake-up
call at a time.
For ages women have come together over coffee, cocktails, or
late-night phone chats to analyze the puzzling behavior of men.
Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo are here to say that -- despite good
intentions -- you're wasting your time. Men are not complicated,
although they'd like you to think they are. And there are no mixed
messages.
The truth may be, "He's just not that into you."
"He's Just Not That Into You" -- based on a popular episode of
"Sex and the City" -- educates otherwise smart women on how to tell
when a guy just doesn't like them "enough, " so they can stop
wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. This book
knows you're a beautiful, smart, funny woman who deserves better
A modern retelling of Aesop and Beatrix Potter's classic tale, this
version finds the Town Mouse sent to the country for moral
improvement after being excluded from school for dealing in class
'C' cheese. Meanwhile, the Country Mouse marches on London to
protest at the recent ban on stag beetle hunting.
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Kangaroo
(Paperback)
David Herbert Lawrence
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R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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