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OverviewThe films, television shows and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship and saving the world. This collection of essays reveals the ways in which the Whedonverse treats the trauma of ordinary life with similar gravitas as trauma created by the supernatural, illustrating how memories are lost, transformed, utilized, celebrated, revered, questioned, feared and rebuffed within the storyworlds created by Joss Whedon and his collaborators. Through a variety of approaches and examinations, the essays in this book seek to understand how the themes of trauma, memory, and identity enrich one another in the Whedonverse and beyond. As the authors present different arguments and focus on various texts, the essays work to build a mosaic of the trauma found in beloved works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse and more. The book concludes with a meta-analysis that explores the allegations of various traumas made against Joss Whedon himself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alyson R. Buckman, , Juliette C. Kitchens , Katherine A. TroyerPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781476682167ISBN 10: 147668216 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 30 November 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. 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"Reviews...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 InformationAlyson 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |