“‘You cannot run from your darkness.’ / ‘Who says I’m running?’: Buffy and the Ownership of Evil” – Erma Petrova

Mar 6, 2003 | Volume 02

In this essay, Erma Petrova argues that, whereas the first seasons of Buffy focused on external threats that sought to corrupt the order of the world, the later seasons shifted the threat towards the internal – the result being that the show’s main...

Buffy: the Evolution of a Valley Girl – Janelle Tassone

Mar 6, 2003 | Volume 02

Series creator Joss Whedon has said that the idea for Buffy came from all the horror movies he had seen featuring a helpless young blonde who would almost always be the first to die. He felt she ‘needed a better image.’ Janelle Tassone argues that that...

Is Buffy a Lacanian? Or, What Is Enlightenment? – Matthew Sharpe

Mar 6, 2003 | Volume 02

Matthew Sharpe brings the Lacan-informed critical theory of Slavoj Zizek to bear upon Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This essay looks at both the diegetic universe of Buffy, and considers television. as a ‘symptomatic’ product of the current later capitalist...

Buffy the Feminist Slayer? Constructions of Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Gwyneth Bodger

Mar 6, 2003 | Volume 02

Feminist critique of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has tended to describe Buffy as a symbol of female empowerment. In this essay, Gwyneth Bodger considers both the character and the series to be very problematic, and undertakes a revised feminist critique of the show....

Volume 1, 2002

Aug 6, 2002 | Contents Page Only, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 01

Contents: 1. The Techno-Sublime by Barbara Bolt 2. Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, The TV Company Ate My Internet Site by Djoymi Baker 3. The Uncomfortable Cult: How Novelty and Subverted Expectations Generate a Cult Following in Contemporary Fantastic...

The Techno-Sublime – Barbara Bolt

Aug 6, 2002 | Volume 01

Barbara Bolt argues that the encounter between dance culture and technology as experienced in ‘clubbing’is a sublime encounter. However, the techno-sublime encounter is predicated on a very different relation to the sublime, than that developed by Immanuel...