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JOSS IS (NO LONGER?) BOSS: FANS’ NEGOTIATIONS AROUND THE “CANCELLING” OF JOSS WHEDON [PDF]

open access: yesAoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2023
The case of Joss Whedon, who has been subject to calls for “cancelling” in light of allegations around misconduct and abuse, is at the heart of a major cultural debate. The term ‘cancel culture’ that entered the public sphere alongside the #MeToo movement has quickly earned a contested status.
Hadas Gur-Ze'ev, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
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Joss Whedon

2019
This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and blockbuster filmmaker.
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Joss Whedon and the Allegedly Feminist Fanboy Auteur

2020
This chapter interrogates the role of being a feminist in Whedon’s branding, arguing that, while he successfully branded himself as feminist for two decades, closer analysis and subsequent revelations demonstrate this to be far more style than substance.
Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill
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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 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Don Macnaughtan
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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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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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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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Exploring a Whedonverse, the Whedonverses, and the Whedonverse(s): The Shape of Transmedia Storytelling in Joss Whedon’s World(s)

2019
For his exemplar storyworlds, not only as transmediated texts but also as sociocultural commentary, Joss Whedon is one of the most studied auteurs of our time. To better understand why Whedon and the Whedonverse(s) matter, this collection looks to the many ways in which his texts are built, disseminated, and consumed. The chapters within it explore how
Kitchens, Juliette, Hawk, Julie L
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