Rhonda V. Wilcox: Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer


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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.

Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and the rest of the girls from Canterlot High are all featured in this tell-all book about their likes, dislikes, friendships, activities, and more! Languishing in a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to dull his pain is steadily gnawing away at his resolve, playing tricks on his mind, and luring him back into the addict mentality that once threatened to destroy his life and family. In the mad, money-driven world of football, some rather interesting and Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer free ebook sometimes shocking kits have been worn upon the field of play. This book is a full-colour celebration of some of the most outrageous strips foisted upon the poor players and the loyal fans, from clashing colours (think graphite/tangerine and custard cream) and disastrous designs (bruised banana anyone?) to surprising sponsors (too rude for the cover) and bad luck omens (you know the one, grey, swapped at half time?). With some classics and some surprises too, The Worst Football Kits of All Time is set to delight fans young and old, from strips donned by Victorian gentleman to modern-day prima donnas. The question is, how many of those featured do you have clogging up your wardrobe? Who knows, maybe they might even become fashionable again. So which really is the worst? You decide...


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Author: Rhonda V. Wilcox
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 01 Dec 2005
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781845110291
Download Link: Click Here
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