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Fighting the Forces - What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hardcover)
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Fighting the Forces - What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hardcover)
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For every television series, the original vision grows within a
press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions
of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad
television-predictable, commercial, exploitative-simply yields to
the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the
struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular
culture, the television series phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In the essays collected here, contributors examine the series using
a variety of techniques and viewpoints. They analyze the social and
cultural issues implicit in the series and place it in its literary
context, not only by examining its literary influences (from German
liebestod to Huckleberry Finn) but also by exploring the series'
purposeful literary allusions. Furthermore, the book explores the
extratextual, such as fanfiction and online discussion groups. The
book is additionally supplemented by an online journal Slayage
(www.slayage.tv), created by the book editors in acknowledgement of
the ongoing nature of television art. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David
Lavery have written and edited several books and articles exploring
the social, literary, and artistic merit of quality television. In
addition to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, their work has covered a
variety of programs including Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, The
X-Files, and The Sopranos.
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