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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.
Tom Transport is stuck in a snowdrift with all the presents for the town Christmas party! It's up to Hookers the tow truck and Blow the snowblower to make their way through the snow to save the day....and the party!
A heartwarming story of friendship and helping out that is perfectly safe for the kids, but with a few snickers that adults with a slightly bent sense of humour can enjoy while reading along.
For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy
mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting'
characters. Gemma Lamb is ready for an uneventful term at St
Bride's, she's had enough of dastardly deeds and sinister
strangers. However, she's barely back at school before: Unlucky in
love Oriana is sneaking around at odd hours Handsome Joe is keeping
secrets Militant Mavis feels a scandal is brewing It's all a bit
much, so when a stranger appears, Gemma thinks she's had enough.
But this stranger isn't so sinister, instead he looks rather too
familiar. If Gemma can't get him away from the school the whispers
and scandal his presence could unleash may just close St Bride's
doors for good. Gemma's joined forces with her colleagues to save
the school in the past, but this time she's going to have to do it
on her own . . .
Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes
heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world--her
bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her
gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her
eccentric grandmothers; her fearless husband, whom she engages in
an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in
their apartment; and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry
one-year-old son.
Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our heads--the one that
most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe
while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally
admits that she is afraid of nearly everything; that she is jealous
even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse; and that
she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.
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