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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464625803321

Titolo

Buffy conquers the academy : conference papers from the 2009/2010 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations / / edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Karoline Szatek-Tudor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6478-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character)

Heroines on television

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; ADDITIONAL READINGS

Sommario/riassunto

Buffy Conquers the Academy represents the cusp of pioneering research into a television show that has inspired a wealth of academic study since its cancellation in 2003. As a reflection of the current obsession with all things vampiric, this text offers an alternative perspective on the vampire myth from the point of view of scholars in the field and thereby celebrates the continuing existence of Buffy Studies as an endlessly fruitful academic discipline that is truly global and interdiscipli...