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From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces
that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the
spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or
Whedon's own house in Much Ado About Nothing, his work collectively
offers audiences the opportunity to question the ways we relate to
and inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films and
comics, this collection of new essays explores the diversity of
home spaces in Whedon's many 'verses, and the complexity these
spaces afford the narratives, characters, objects and relationships
within them.
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.
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.
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.
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