Volume 2, 2003

Mar 18, 2003 | Contents Page Only, Volume 02

Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer edited by Angela Ndalianis & Felicity Colman On the 21st of November 2002, a Symposium called “The Buffyverse” was held by the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. This volume of Refractory: a...

“For a Newer Rite is Here: Buffy the Vampire Slayer” – Joseph W. Reed

Mar 18, 2003 | Volume 02

Our allegiance to Buffy the Vampire Slayer depends on a remarkable emotional involvement with very young but very strong characters. Its meaning, the rhythm of the Buffy myth, the speed with which its world turns, are a product of our involvement in its characters....

Welcome to the house of fun: Buffy fanfiction as a hall of mirrors – Linda Rust

Mar 18, 2003 | Volume 02

Fanfiction has been regarded in the past by theorists like Henry Jenkins as a scribbling in the margins, a form of textual poaching. Linda Rust argues that Buffy has reversed this process, turning the fans into authors and allowing them to not only play with any...

‘It all seems so real’: Intertextuality in the Buffyverse – Vivien Burr

Mar 18, 2003 | Volume 02

Through quotation and intertextuality Buffy the Vampire Slayer constructs a universe that is shared between viewer and character. The viewer is aligned with characters through shared memories and experiences. Viewers are positioned sometimes inside the text and...

‘Family Blood is always the Sweetest’: The Gothic Transgressions of Angel/Angelus – Lucy Nevitt & Andy William Smith

Mar 18, 2003 | Volume 02

The stylistic properties of Buffy the Vampire Slayer visualise the supernatural as a counterpoint to the cultural apparatus of American teenage life. Lucy Nevitt and Andy William Smith explore how the mise en scene and narratives of Buffy The Vampire Slayer draw upon...

Is Giles Simply Another Dr Van Helsing? Continuity & Innovation in the Figure of the Watcher in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Coralline Dupuy

Mar 18, 2003 | Volume 02

Mentors feature prominently in the Gothic genre. From Dr Van Helsing in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), who leads the young heroes into their quest to annihilate the Count, to Rupert Giles, the Watcher in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, older and more experienced adults...