Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond - Couverture souple

 
9781350201224: Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond
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ISBN 10 : 1350201227 ISBN 13 : 9781350201224
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett’s collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the ‘70s and ‘80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon’s genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

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À propos des auteurs

Kristopher Karl Woofter is a faculty member of the English Department at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he teaches courses on the American Gothic, the Weird tradition, and horror in literature, cinema and television.

Lorna Jowett is Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, UK.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1350201227
ISBN 13 
9781350201224
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Éditeur
Woofter Kristopher Karl
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ISBN 10 :  1788311027 ISBN 13 :  9781788311021
Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2018
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