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The Nile on eBay Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition by Kristopher Karl Woofter, Lorna Jowett Although ostensibly presented as "light entertainment," the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s "slasher" craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on "cosmic dread" and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kristopher Karl Woofter teaches on the American Gothic, horror and the "Weird tradition" in literature, cinema and television at Dawson College, Canada.Lorna Jowett is Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Table of Contents List of Illustrations xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction Whedon Studies and the Ghost of Horror 1Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna JowettPart I (Under)Groundwork: Horror Concepts and Conventions in the Whedonverse1 The Slasher Template: Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. John Carpenter's Halloween 17Clayton Dillard2 The Sonic Horror of "Hush" 34Selma A. Purac3 "The Body" That Will Not Sit Up: Shock, Stasis, and the Negative Space of the Horror Genre 53Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare4 The Melancholy Musical: Horror and Avant-Garde Strategies in "Once More, with Feeling" 73Anne Golden5 Angel's Dreams, Our Nightmares: Oneiric Horror in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer 92Cynthia Burkhead6 Dollhouse's Terrible Places: Hauntings, Abjection, and the Repressed 105Bronwen Calvert7 Inscription and Subversion: The Cabin in the Woods and the Postmodern Horror Tradition 123Stephanie GravesPart II Mutant Enemies: TV Horror, Industry, and Influence8 "For All I Know, It Could Be Hilarious or It Could Suck": Situating the Film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) in Period Vampire Comedy 143Jerry D. Metz Jr.9 Monstrous Puppet Masters: Negotiating Violence and Horror in the Whedon Tele-verse 163Stacey Abbott10 Forever Knight, Angel, and Supernatural: A Genealogy of Television Horror/Crime Hybrids 181Erin GianniniPart III "It's About Power": Revisiting Whedon's "Revisionist" Horror11 Whedon, Feminism, and the Possibility of Feminist Horror on Television 201Lorna Jowett12 Weird Whedon: Cosmic Dread and Sublime Alterity in the Whedonverse 219Kristopher Karl Woofter13 "All the Better to Know You": Investigating the Hybrid Monster and Allegories of Self/Other inBuffy the Vampire Slayer 243K. Brenna Wardell14 Horror and the Last Frontier: Monstrous Borders and Bodies in Firefly and Westworld 261Karen Herland15 The Half-Lives of Horror: The Differential Embodiments of Dollhouse 281Alanna ThainAppendix I The Work of Joss Whedon and the Horror Tradition: A Selected Bibliography 298Compiled by Alysa HornickAppendix II Foundational Works in Horror and Related Scholarship 308About the Contributors 313Index 317 Review Exposes both his deep affection for the horror genre and the complexity of the horror genre itself ... Provides a solid addition to study of the horror genre on both television and film, and in popular culture more generally. * Critical Studies in Television * Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition takes nothing for granted, appealing to fans of both the creator and the genre. Scholarly yet accessible, it should be pop-culture required reading. -- Elizabeth L. Rambo, Associate Professor of English at Campbell University, USA This book will fascinate horror scholars and television scholars alike. The analyses are text-specific yet thoughtfully grounded in the context of the horror tradition. The writers are original and insightful. -- Rhonda V. Wilcox, Professor of English at Gordon State College, USA Review Quote This book will fascinate horror scholars and television scholars alike. The analyses are text-specific yet thoughtfully grounded in the context of the horror tradition. The writers are original and insightful. Details ISBN 1788311027 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1788311027 ISBN-13 9781788311021 Format Hardcover Pages 344 Series International Library Of The Moving Image Imprint I.B. Tauris Subtitle The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Lorna Jowett DEWEY 791.450232092 Affiliation University of Northampton, UK Short Title Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition Language English Publication Date 2018-11-29 UK Release Date 2018-11-29 Illustrations 33 bw illus NZ Release Date 2018-11-29 Author Lorna Jowett Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-01-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134579616;