Spreading vampirism: Viral disease models in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
, 2019 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its companion series Angel (1999-2004) were American television shows that contrasted the behavior and physicality of human characters from their vampiric counterparts. Throughout both series, humans transform into vampires via a process (“siring”) that can be closely linked to clinical and biological studies ...
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Prophetic Visions, Quality Serials: Twin Peaks’ new mode of storytelling
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2015 Following the April 1990 debut of Twin Peaks on ABC, the vision - a sequence of images that relates information of the narrative future or past – has become a staple of numerous network, basic cable and premium cable serials, including Buffy the Vampire ...
Mikhail L. Skoptsov
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Crossing classical thresholds: Gods, monsters and Hell dimensions in the Whedon universe
, 2009 This essay shows that Classics provides an enriching context for the hugely popular youth-oriented fantasies on US television. Taking two Joss Whedon created series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, I examine what additional nuances might be revealed ...
James, Paula
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From demigods to slayers: Contemporary mythology and gender economies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
, 2009 In the critically acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, writer-director Joss Whedon revises the trope of monster slaying into a contemporary feminist Slayer mythology.
Yerima, Adam Kem
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How the Dark Horse Came in: Portland State University Library Acquires Dark Horse Comics Archive [PDF]
, 2009 The article reports on the acquisition made by the Portland State University (PSU) on the archives of Dark Horse Comics Inc. The acquisition is done after PSU alumnus and founder of Dark Horse Comics Mark Richardson donated multiple copies of the past ...
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'It's all my interpretation': reading Spike through the subcultural celebrity of James Marsters [PDF]
, 2011 This article considers how fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel interpret the character of Spike through meanings attached to actor James Marsters as a 'subcultural celebrity'.
Hills, Matt, Williams, Rebecca
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Young People's Voices and Science for Overcoming Toxic Relationships Represented in Sex Education. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Villarejo-Carballido B +3 more
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Characterizing the Influence of Television Health Entertainment Narratives in Lay Populations: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Am J Health Promot, 2023 Hoffman BL +8 more
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A Ghost of a Fiction: Fury and the Poetics of Simulacra
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2008 This paper will illustrate the way in which a contemporary novel engages with the idea of the disappearance of the real. Its elaboration of a poetics of simulacra situates it within a Baudrillardean realm of simulation where all is narrative and ...
Madelena Gonzalez
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"'Who are you?' - Learning person specific classifiers from video" [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate the problem of automatically labelling faces of characters in TV or movie material with their names, using only weak supervision from automaticallyaligned subtitle and script text. Our previous work (Everingham et al. [8]) demonstrated
Everingham, M., Sivic, J., Zisserman, A.
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