Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jennifer K. Stuller (English) Paperba

Description: Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jennifer K. Stuller Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Joss Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series gathered a devoted audience that remains loyal to the show. This book explores how this devotion is internalized, celebrated, and critiqued. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedons television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series far outpaced its source material, gathering a devoted audience that remains loyal to the show more than a decade after it left the airwaves. Heralded for its use of smart, funny, and emotionally resonant narrative; subversive and feminist characterizations; and unique approaches to television as an art form, the show quickly developed its own unique fan community, who built on existing narratives through fan fiction, media manipulation, and performance. Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer explores how this continued devotion is internalized, celebrated, and critiqued. Featuring interviews with culture makers, academics, and creators of participatory fandom, the essays here are a window into the more personal and communal aspects of the fan experience. Essays from critical thinkers and scholars address how Buffy inspires the creation of, among other enduring artifacts of fandom, fan fiction, crafting, performance, cosplay, and sing-alongs. As an accessible yet vigorous examination of a beloved character and her world, Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer provokes a larger conversation about the relationship between cult properties and fandom, and how their interplay permeates the cultural consciousness, in effect contributing to culture through new narrative, academia, language, and political activism. Author Biography Jennifer K. Stuller is a writer, author, scholar, media critic, and feminist pop culture historian. Table of Contents Introduction – Jennifer K. StullerThe Best, Worst, Known, and Not-So-Known, Pop Culture Influences on the Buffyverse – Jennifer K. StullerLets Watch a Girl: Whedon, Buffy, and Fans in Action – Tanya R. CochranFiccers and Shippers: A Love Story – Mary Kirby-DiazInterview – Nicki Stafford: Organising The Great Buffy Rewatch of 2011Buffyspeak: The Internal and External Impact of Slayer Slang – Liz MedendorpWelcome to the Hellmouth: Harnessing the Power of Fandom in the Classroom – Amy Peloff and David Boarder GilesInterview – Rhonda Wilcox: The Mother of Buffy StudiesBuffy, Dark Romance and Female Horror Fans – Lorna JowettSeeing Green: Willow and Tara Forever – Kristen Julia AndersonThe Art of Buffy Crafts – Nikki Faith FullerInterview – Clinton McClung: Founder of the touring Once More With Feeling interactive eventBuffyverse Fandom as Religion – Anthony R. MillsInterview – Scott Allie: Writer, and Senior Managing Editor at Dark Horse ComicsUnlimited Potentials – David Bushman and Arthur Smith Review This book is for all the Buffy fans new and old who are asking themselves "where do we go from here"? Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a celebration, a geek freak out, a fun pontification on what it means to continue to be inspired by this cheeky, kick-ass pop culture icon -- Jo Jo Stiletto, Producer Whedonesque BurlesqueThis is a brilliant and compulsively readable exploration of the fandom dynamic in the context of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fan and scholar Stuller has amassed a fascinating array of essays and interviews by the best and brightest (and wittiest!) who love and study the Slayer -- Nancy Holder, NYT Best Selling AuthorJennifer Stullers new compilation has once more revised and expanded our sense of what a Buffy volume can be, this time offering us not only fresh insights into the world of the slayer and her life in the minds of fans, but a new graphically enthralling book design as well – a perfect inducement for what Joss Whedon once called "the revolutionary page-turning process" -- David Lavery, Founding Co-Editor of Slayage: The Journal of The Whedon Studies Society and author of Joss Whedon: A Creative Portrait Review Quote "This is a brilliant and compulsively readable exploration of the fandom dynamic in the context of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Fan and scholar Stuller has amassed a fascinating array of essays and interviews by the best and brightest (and wittiest!) who love and study the Slayer." Details ISBN1783200197 Pages 164 Language English ISBN-10 1783200197 ISBN-13 9781783200191 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Imprint Intellect Books Place of Publication Bristol Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Jennifer K. Stuller DEWEY 791.4572 Illustrations 50 colour plates Short Title BVS Series Fan Phenomena Publication Date 2013-08-15 NZ Release Date 2013-08-15 UK Release Date 2013-08-15 Author Jennifer K. Stuller Audience General AU Release Date 2013-08-14 Publisher Intellect We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129563872;

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