Can I read I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (Investigating Cult TV) on EtoBox?

I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (Investigating Cult TV) by Patricia Pender is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (Investigating Cult TV) about?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave contemporary TV viewers an exhilarating alternative to the tired cultural trope of a hapless, attractive blonde woman victimized by a murderous male villain. With its strong, capable heroine, witty dialogue, and a creator (Joss Whedon) who identifies himself as a feminist, the cult show became one of the most widely analysed texts in contemporary popular culture. The last episode, broadcast in 2002, did not herald the passing of a fleeting phenomenon: Buffy is a media presence still, active on DVD and the internet, alive in the career of Joss Whedon and studied internationally. I'm Buffy and You're History puts the entire series under the microscope, investigating its gender and feminist politics.In this book, Patricia Pender argues that Buffy includes diverse elements of feminism and reconfigures - and sometimes revises - the ideals of American second wave feminism for a wide third wave audience. She also explores the ways in which the final season's vision of collective feminist activism negotiates racial and class boundaries.Exploring the Slayer's postmodern politics, her position as a third wave feminist icon, her placing of masculinity in extremis

Who reads I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (Investigating Cult TV)?

Author

Patricia Pender

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786730107

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Performing Arts, Sports