a) I would be sad to live in a world with no Lost Girl. Truth.
b) Currently my sister is reading something called "Sex & The Slayer, A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan" - Description on Amazon reads - 'During its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer attracted a wide range of viewers and almost unprecedented academic interest. Sex and the Slayer explores one of the most talked-about topics in relation to this pioneering TV series--gender. As fantasy, Buffy potentially opens up a space for alternative representations of gender. But how alternative can popular television be? Taking a feminist cultural studies approach, Jowett explores the ways in which the series represents femininity, masculinity, and gendered relations, including sexuality and sexual orientation. Written for undergraduates, Sex and the Slayer provides an introduction to the most important theoretical and historical underpinnings of contemporary gender criticism as it examines a range of thought-provoking issues: role reversal, the tension between feminism and femininity, the "crisis" of masculinity, gender hybridity, the appeal of bad girls, romance, and changing family structures. Through this introductory analysis, Jowett shows that Buffy presents a contradictory mixture of "subversive" and "conservative" images of gender roles and as such is a key example of the complexity of gender representation in contemporary television.' - I can ask her more about it if you are interested.
c) I agree we wouldn't have those shows without Buffy, including SPN. Not because it just opened doors for women, but it really opened the doors for that 'supernatural' genre. We had sci-fi already and we had fantasy, but we didn't have that whole 'ghosts, vampires, zombies, etc' in the mainstream like we do post-Buffy era. Buffy & The X-Files really opened that door.
She changed the world. A lot.
That she did. That she did. (I feel like you just gave the eulogy at her funeral or something).
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Date: 2012-12-25 02:50 am (UTC)b) Currently my sister is reading something called "Sex & The Slayer, A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan" - Description on Amazon reads - 'During its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer attracted a wide range of viewers and almost unprecedented academic interest. Sex and the Slayer explores one of the most talked-about topics in relation to this pioneering TV series--gender. As fantasy, Buffy potentially opens up a space for alternative representations of gender. But how alternative can popular television be?
Taking a feminist cultural studies approach, Jowett explores the ways in which the series represents femininity, masculinity, and gendered relations, including sexuality and sexual orientation. Written for undergraduates, Sex and the Slayer provides an introduction to the most important theoretical and historical underpinnings of contemporary gender criticism as it examines a range of thought-provoking issues: role reversal, the tension between feminism and femininity, the "crisis" of masculinity, gender hybridity, the appeal of bad girls, romance, and changing family structures. Through this introductory analysis, Jowett shows that Buffy presents a contradictory mixture of "subversive" and "conservative" images of gender roles and as such is a key example of the complexity of gender representation in contemporary television.' - I can ask her more about it if you are interested.
c) I agree we wouldn't have those shows without Buffy, including SPN. Not because it just opened doors for women, but it really opened the doors for that 'supernatural' genre. We had sci-fi already and we had fantasy, but we didn't have that whole 'ghosts, vampires, zombies, etc' in the mainstream like we do post-Buffy era. Buffy & The X-Files really opened that door.
She changed the world. A lot.
That she did. That she did. (I feel like you just gave the eulogy at her funeral or something).