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Joss Whedon

2015
Joss Whedon (b. 1964) is primarily a television and movie screenwriter, and he is also a director, producer, comic book writer, composer, activist, and occasional actor. He grew up in a family of television writers, and his feminist sensibilities were strongly influenced by his mother Lee Stearns.
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Joss Whedon As Philosopher

2017
In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can “do” philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedon’s fictive creations—Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and The Cabin in the Woods (among others)—to establish this thesis.
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Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait

2014
Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After establishing himself as a premier cult creator, the man who gave us great television with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse and web ...
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J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon

2016
J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are two of the most imaginative and accomplished men in Hollywood. As writers, directors, producers, and series creators, their credits have straddled the mediums of television and film and range across several genres, from science fiction and horror to action and drama.
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Imagined interactions and identity in the works of Joss Whedon

Continuum, 2016
AbstractJoss Whedon has presented several examples of imagined interactions and how they relate to real-life communication, specifically how they relate learning about and playing with one’s own identity. In this paper, Whedon’s serial narratives are examined through an imagined interactions theoretical lens and a fantasy theme analytical lens to ...
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Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing and the Voyeuristic Audience

Shakespeare Bulletin, 2017
This article explores the dynamics of performance and voyeurism in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Joss Whedon’s recent film adaptation of the same. In Shakespeare’s original, two distinct viewing identities emerge: those of audience member and voyeur.
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"Lovingly tweaked": genre and gender in Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

2013
This thesis explores genre and gender in Joss Whedon's web miniseries, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. The plot of the web miniseries follows Billy, whose alter ego is the wannabe villain, Dr. Horrible. He spends the majority of the miniseries attempting to commit villainous crimes that will, he hopes, get him placed into the Evil League of Evil ...
Cox, Jessica I.   +3 more
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‘Except that Joss Whedon is god’: fannish attitudes to statements of author/ity

International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014
Early internet and fan studies theorists believed the New Media context and work of the active fan would bring theories like the Death of the Author to fruition. Contemporary fan studies scholars are more reserved, acknowledging diversity in fan attitudes. Through analysis of a LiveJournal article with comments on authors’ views concerning fanfiction,
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Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon

2011
Edited Collection of essays on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr.
Bach, Jacqueline   +10 more
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Organizational Communication Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon

2019
In Organizational Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon, Andrew F. Herrmann offers an in-depth analysis of the connections between communication, organization, gender, discourse, and ethics in the works of Joss Whedon. Herrmann examines how characters go to work in organizations, how characters fight against organizations, and how some organizations ...
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