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Pop Feminism: Televised Superheroines from the 1990s to the 2010s
Gender Studies, 2016 This paper analyses the construction of two superheroines, one from the 1990s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and one from the 2010s (Jessica Jones). I contend that popular feminism has changed between the 1990s and the present and that this is evident in the
Bercuci Loredana
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 121-130, June 2026.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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“I Think I Need to Kill You”: The New Woman Assassin in Hanna and Killing Eve
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 38-45, February 2026.ABSTRACT Killing Eve and Hanna feature women assassins, who are examined here in the context of the action woman, arguing that the depiction of women action in these two series marks a departure from traditional iterations of this and related character tropes.
Cornelia Klecker
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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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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 ...
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L’héroïsme intermédial de Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Otrante, 2017 International ...
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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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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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“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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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Superheroine, but not in Serbia
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 This paper discusses the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, more specifically, its enormous popularity in the United States, Western Europe and Australia, and the absence of any reaction to the series in Serbia.
Ljiljana Gavrilović
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