Book review: Gender, violence and popular culture: tellingstories [PDF]
, 2013 This book approaches the interrelation of popular representations of gender and violence and global politics by focusing on the narrative of television shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The West Wing.
Gouseti, Ioanna
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Just chronotopes: Embodiment, social justice, and “the somatopic imagination”
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.Abstract Drawing on data collected in a global, collaborative ethnography called The Living Justice Project (LJP), this paper investigates how formulations of social justice situate speakers' bodies in relation to one another as well as in relation to dominant interpretations of the past, felt experiences in the present, and visions for the (possible ...
Sonya E. Pritzker +1 more
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
, 2005 'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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L’héroïsme intermédial de Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Otrante, 2017 International ...
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From the Valley to the Hellmouth: “Buffy”’s Transition from Film to Television [PDF]
Slayage, 2001 The Buffy who fights demons on television in Sunnydale is a far cry from the Buffy who fought vampires on the big screen in the early nineties. In the transition from film to television, Buffy has mutated from a bubbly Valley girl into a feminist heroine
Gabrielle Moss
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Analysis of the Progression of the Representation of Female Protagonists in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Shows Orphan Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Girl Power, Appropriated “Masculinity” in Conjunction with Femininity, Empowered Sexuality, and the Heterosexual Script [PDF]
, 2017 Buffy Summers goes from urban Los Angeles to Sunnydale, California after she is expelled from her previous high school on the grounds of an assortment of Slayer-related incidents.
Becker, Dakota
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Leadership in a continuous crisis
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2024.Abstract Research has focused on episodic crises (e.g., fire extinguished), with regard to causality, management, and recovery. But some crises (e.g., illegal migration) are continuous, with no clear conclusion, and the nature and timing of the recovery phase are indeterminate. To explore the challenges facing leaders in a continuous crisis, we turn to
Markus Hällgren, David A. Buchanan
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“Unreal” Gender Messages in Late 90s Women-Centered Action Dramas
TV Series, 2012 The rise of women-centered action drama series such as Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (1995-2002), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), and Charmed (1998-2002), in the late 90s was seen as feminist progress by some thanks to the shows’ powerful lead female ...
Anne Currier Sweet
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Arachne Challenges Minerva: The Spinning Out of Long Narrative in World of Warcraft and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
, 2007 My focus here is to explore the ways in which World of Warcraft can be said to have a long narrative. Core to my argument is that 'worldness' is key to understanding how it is that long narrative can be sustained and make sense.
Krzywinska, T
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“Love at first sight”: TV shows. And introduction into anthropological analysis
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2014 Television shows are a noted and important form of popular culture. They are subject to anthropological research as much as any other form of pop culture and this has been done in the new Serbian anthropology which had included them in its inventory of ...
Ivan Kovačević, Marija Brujić
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