Why Buffy Matters

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Rhonda Wilcox

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I B TAURIS
26 August 2005

Television; Fiction-related items; Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BTVS); Media Reference

"Hugely enjoyable, long awaited book by top world authority on ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"". Buffy is still on screens and on DVD in home television libraries of a wide array of TV watchers and fans. This is also the student text for TV and cultural studies at colleges and universities where Buffy is widely taught. Rhonda Wilcox is a world authority on ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", who has been writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens. This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought, a celebration of the series that she proposes is an aesthetic test case for television. Buffy is enduring as art, she argues, by exploring its own possibilities for long-term construction as well as producing individual episodes that are powerful in their own right. She examines therefore the larger patterns that extend through many episodes: the hero myth, the imagery of light, naming symbolism, Spike, sex and redemption, Buffy Summers compared and contrasted with Harry Potter. She then moves in to focus on individual episodes, such as the ""Buffy musical Once More, with Feeling"", the largely silent Hush and the dream episode ""Restless"" (T.S. Eliot comes to television). She also examines Buffy's ways of making meaning - from literary narrative and symbolism to visual imagery and sound. Combining great intelligence and wit, written for the wide Buffy readership, this is the worthy companion to the show that has claimed and kept the minds and hearts of watchers worldwide."

By: Rhonda Wilcox
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 334g
ISBN: 9781845110291
ISBN 10: 1845110293
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 26 August 2005
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rhonda Wilcox is an English professor and television scholar. She is co-editor of 'Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and of 'Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies'. She has been described by CNN as 'the Mother of Buffy studies'.