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10%OFFPatricia Pender - I´m Buffy and You´re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism - 9781780767451 - V9781780767451
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I´m Buffy and You´re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism

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Description for I´m Buffy and You´re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism Hardback. Fresh investigation of Buffy's feminism. Series: Investigating Cult TV Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APT; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
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, and her fandom and legacy in popular culture, this is a fresh and challenging contribution to the growing literature on the pitfalls and pleasures of a great cult TV show.

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
Investigating Cult TV Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780767451
SKU
V9781780767451
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Ref
99-1

About Patricia Pender
Patricia Pender is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (2012) and specialises in gender and popular culture, early modern literature and feminist theory. A member of the editorial board of Slayage, she has published numerous articles on feminist theory and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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