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Author:   Alyson R. Buckman, ,  Juliette C. Kitchens ,  Katherine A. Troyer
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781476682167

ISBN 10:   147668216
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to the Hellmouth: Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse Katherine A. Troyer ""That has nothing to do with today"": The Whedonverse and the Dangers of Rewriting Historical Memory Erin Giannini Unwanted Memories: When Heroines Choose Trauma Over Amnesia Valerie Estelle Frankel Restless Death: Memory and Transmedial Bodies in the Buffyverse Juliette C. Kitchens Dismembering (the) Buffybot Madeline Muntersbjorn ""Better"": Trauma, Romantic Attachment, and the Victor/Sierra Arc in Dollhouse Renee St. Louis ""Now you don't have to use this color anymore"": Art Therapy in Dollhouse and Orphan Black Janet Brennan Croft Such Pretty Things: Madness in the Whedonverse Catherine Pugh Conclusion: ""We had our own hellmouth"": The Allegations Against Joss Whedon Alyson R. Buckman About the Contributors Index"

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...elegantly grapples with the complexities of trauma and memory displayed through the Whedon cannon without allowing the critical discussion of the fictitious to overshadow the hauntingly real traumas surrounding Whedon's influential, but controversial, legacy. --Janna Harner, author of Killing is for grown-ups The Spatial Performance of Trauma in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Series The orientation of the collection--conceptions and invocations of trauma in particular--is a contemporary, burgeoning and multidisciplinary field, so this is a timely collection that reorientates a variety of Whedonverse texts via a series of innovative and productive discourses. --Michael Starr, coeditor of Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series

The orientation of the collection--conceptions and invocations of trauma in particular--is a contemporary, burgeoning and multidisciplinary field, so this is a timely collection that reorientates a variety of Whedonverse texts via a series of innovative and productive discourses. --Michael Starr, coeditor of Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series ...elegantly grapples with the complexities of trauma and memory displayed through the Whedon cannon without allowing the critical discussion of the fictitious to overshadow the hauntingly real traumas surrounding Whedon's influential, but controversial, legacy. --Janna Harner, author of Killing is for grown-ups The Spatial Performance of Trauma in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Series

"""The orientation of the collection--conceptions and invocations of trauma in particular--is a contemporary, burgeoning and multidisciplinary field, so this is a timely collection that reorientates a variety of Whedonverse texts via a series of innovative and productive discourses.""--Michael Starr, coeditor of Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series"

"""The orientation of the collection--conceptions and invocations of trauma in particular--is a contemporary, burgeoning and multidisciplinary field, so this is a timely collection that reorientates a variety of Whedonverse texts via a series of innovative and productive discourses.""--Michael Starr, coeditor of Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series ""...elegantly grapples with the complexities of trauma and memory displayed through the Whedon cannon without allowing the critical discussion of the fictitious to overshadow the hauntingly real traumas surrounding Whedon's influential, but controversial, legacy.""--Janna Harner, author of ""Killing is for grown-ups"" The Spatial Performance of Trauma in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Series"

Author Information

Alyson R. Buckman is a professor in and current chair of the humanities and religious studies department at California State University, Sacramento. She has published on Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, The Gilmore Girls, Orphan Black, and the Whedonverse. Juliette C. Kitchens is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Communication at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She teaches an array of courses focused on the rhetorics of popular culture and has published in Studies in Popular Culture. Katherine A. Troyer is the assistant director of The Collaborative for Learning and Teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, she teaches, writes, and podcasts (as a co-host of Such a Nightmare) about all things horror.

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