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El genre mixing en la ficción televisiva norteamericana. El caso de Joss Whedon

open access: yesComunicación, 2022
La problemática genérica siempre ha sido un tema clave en el análisis del discurso audiovisual. Actualmente la televisión se encuentra en un complejo proceso de transformación en el que la fusión de géneros está marcando la evolución de las narrativas ...
Irene Raya Bravo
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The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 5-6, Page 810-823, October/December 2023., 2023
Abstract “Bury Your Gays” is the popular name used to describe the common television trope in which characters who are ostensibly gender‐ or sexually‐diverse are denied happy endings or “killed off”. Widespread online commentary among audiences reacting to incidents of “Bury Your Gays” are indicative of a public concern over the repetitiveness of this ...
Rob Cover, Cassandra Milne
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Be Brave, live: reviewing Buffy's journey in Buffy The Vampire Slayer from Final Girl to Heroine twenty-five years later

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2023
The present paper discusses the United-Statesian TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer reassessing its protagonist, Buffy Summers, in 2022, twenty-five years after its first broadcasting.
Yasmim Pereira Yonekura   +1 more
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Just Another Angry Woman: Adaptations of Female Rage through Euripides, Shakespeare, and Whedon [PDF]

open access: yesSlayage, 2023
Euripides’ portrayal of Medea, Shakespeare’s dramatization of Queen Margaret, and Joss Whedon and company’s creation of Willow Rosenberg all work to depict the silencing of female emotion.
Pistone, Melissa
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The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021
Referring to the work of Julia Kristeva, this article seeks to perform a comparative analysis between Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), as she appears within the remit of Joss Whedon and David Greenwalts’s Angel (1999–2004), and Vanessa Ives (Eva ...
Kwasu D. Tembo
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Unending War: Combat Trauma in Joss Whedon’s "Firefly"

open access: yesZałącznik Kulturoznawczy, 2023
The article discusses the long-term effects of combat trauma as portrayed in Joss Whedon’s Firefly series, focusing on the issues of trust, identity, and belonging. In doing so, it highlights the image of warrior and war in popular culture.
Joanna Komorowska, Aneta Kliszcz
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Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, ou le blues du super-méchant

open access: yesTV Series, 2017
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a web-series created by Joss Whedon which mixes a fictional world with super-heroes and codes from musicals. Through the superimposition of different references, the series builds a representation of the character’s ...
Claire Cornillon
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For and Against the Law:‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, ‘Angel’ and the Academy

open access: yesEntertainment and Sports Law Journal, 2016
In this article I will first argue that the two television series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (hereafter BtVS) and its spinoff series ‘Angel’ both contain an account of the place of law and legal institutions in society.
Anthony Bradney
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"Past the brink of tacit support": Fan activism and the Whedonverses

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2012
For decades, the phrase fan activism has referred almost exclusively to television fans' efforts to save their favorite series. These campaigns—dating at least as far back as the original Star Trek (1966–69) to the more recent Farscape (1999–2003 ...
Tanya R. Cochran
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« Brouillard sanglant » sur Sunnydale !

open access: yesStrenae, 2011
The "Buffyverse" (the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, 1997-2003) has greatly fascinated the public—from its original core audience to the entire age range over the seasons—to the point that it has undergone a whole series of
Isabelle-Rachel Casta
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