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Gianniny, Megan E. ""Other than Dead": Queering Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and The Gilda Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/382.

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This thesis examines three diverse vampire narratives from around the 1990s, arguing that the liminal figure of the vampire, forever in between life and death, is also then well-positioned to queer norms around gender, sexuality, and relationships. This queering, however, manifests differently in each narrative. My analysis looks at each of these three narratives in turn, while also considering how each text’s placement as mainstream or not mainstream affected the manifestation of the vampires’ queering.
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Sjöberg, Jakob. "Beauty and the Beasts : the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11413.

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<p>Bilden av ”manligt” och ”kvinnligt” har i skräck- och action-filmer/TV-serier länge varit väldigt stereotyp. Kvinnan har ofta spelat rollen som den utsatta, den svaga, det som kallas ”Damsel in distress” i karaktärsbeskrivningar. Mannen har å sin sida varit den mer eller mindre felfria hjälten, som alltid vet råd. Under 1990-talet och 2000-talet började bilden ändras inom den genren. Starka kvinnor dök upp i form av karaktärer och filmer som Lara Croft och Resident Evil. TV-serien Buffy – the Vampire Slayer, som sändes mellan 1997 och 2003, var också en del i detta, främst genom att låta huvudrollen spelas av en ung blond kvinna, som i regel annars snabbt hade fått falla offer för mördaren/monstret. Det jag är intresserad av att undersöka i min uppsats är hur de manliga karaktärerna påverkas och utvecklas i en TV-serie som domineras av starka kvinnliga karaktärer. Vad får de representera för ideal för sin publik? Reduceras mannen här till en liknande stereotyp roll som kvinnan tidigare gjorde inom samma genre?</p>
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Farghaly, Nadine. "Patriarchy Strikes Back: Power and Perception In Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1241804608.

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Pearl, Michael S. ""All that we become" renegotiating vampire/performative masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004891.

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Byers, Michele. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the insurgence of television as a performance text." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53861.pdf.

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Nygren, Anna. "Vampyrers död och Andra(s) kroppar : En studie av True Blood, Vampire Diaries och Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65056.

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I den här uppsatsen undersöks hur vampyrer dör i TV-serierna True Blood (2008-2014), Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) och Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). Genom närläsning och jämförelser mellan dessa olika sätt att skildra vampyrers död diskuteras vad detta innebär för den roll vampyren får i respektive serie, och vad det betyder för skildringen av kropp och kroppslighet. Jag använder mig av teorier kring skildringen av (mänsklig) död på film, samt för en diskussion i relation till bland annat Judith Butlers begrepp ”sörjbara kroppar” och Giorgio Agambens ”bare life”. Utifrån detta ställs frågor om hur vampyrer, deras död och skildringen av denna relaterar till de diskurser om mänsklighet som genomsyrar serierna och deras kontext.
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Harmath, Emilia. "Familjemaskinen - En schizoanalytisk studie om vänskap i Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5473.

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Denna uppsats studerar kultserien Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) utifrån ett schizoanalytiskt perspektiv genom att applicera tre huvudsakliga begrepp inom Gilles Deleuzes och Félix Guattaris teorier på sju avsnitt, en från varje säsong; dessa begrepp är Anti-Oidipus, begärsmaskinen och krigsmaskinen. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida vännerna i serien först och främst är en anti-oidipal familj. Den utgår från tre analysfrågor: Är de som en grupp en begärsmaskin? Är gruppen ”schizofren”? Utgör de tillsammans en krigsmaskin? Studien visar på karaktärernas samspel och sammanhållning som en grupp på ett sätt som visar att begreppet familj inte endast kan definieras av blodsrelationer utan av sammankopplingar vilka snarast är att beskriva som maskiner. Den finner emellertid att det också finns inslag av en oidipal ordning i skildringen av individers problem och lösningen av dem samt i en idealisering av det normala familjelivet. Den kommer därför till slutsatsen att serien i sig i en mening är ”schizofren”.
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Ryderberg, Sanni. "Strong female characters and femininity : Exploring feminine language in Buffy the vampire slayer." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-138888.

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It is widely accepted that gender is actively performed and a part of identity rather than biology, and that this is where gender differences in language stem from. Researchers have attempted to define what constitutes men and women’s language, and this paper uses some of these definitions to analyse the speech of the main character in the first season of the television show Buffy the vampire slayer. This research project investigates Buffy’s use of feminine language as well as whether her language changes when her performance is otherwise more masculine in the role of the slayer. This is done by comparing conversations between Buffy and her friends with conversations between Buffy and her enemies. The results show that Buffy uses some feminine linguistic features but that her speech is not distinctly feminine in general. Her language also does not change significantly when performing the role of the slayer.
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Shepherd, Dawn. "Marketing Subjectivity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Construction of the Problematic Female Television Audience." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04012004-143839/.

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Though some work has been done on the relationship between the series and its audience, most notably Tjardes's examination of the audience's constructions of Faith the Vampire Slayer, little has been written about the ways in which power relationships within the series contribute to the discursive construction of the audience, specifically the female audience. In order to examine power relationships within the series and their impact on the discursive construction of the female audience, I use the fields of rhetoric and critical discourse analysis to frame my discussion. Initially in Chapter 2, I present an overview of major critical perspectives on audience, specifically delineating the essentialist and socially constructed conceptions of audience. Synthesizing scholarship on the construction of audience and tools from critical discourse analysis, I outline three principles for examining the construction of the television audience. Next in Chapter 3, I discuss levels of social organization and the subject positions available in Buffy, examining specific character interactions, paying particular attention to the ways in which power relationships develop within and through the interactions. Then in Chapter 4, I consider the impact of the cultural context and the text's medium on the series. Finally in Chapter 5, I expose the problematic nature of constructing the female television audience, revisit Buffy and how the series interacts with dominant ideologies, offer potential for multiple audiences, and propose avenues meriting further exploration.
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Goile, Joanne Elizabeth. "Fascinations of fiction an examination of devices used within the television programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer that succeed in blurring the boundaries between viewers and the fictional diegesis of the show : thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Art and Design, 2003." Full thesis. Abstract, 2003.

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Rodeheffer, Marielle D. "A study of cult television, Buffy the vampire slayer, and the uses and gratifications theory." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379437.

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This study builds on the Uses and Gratifications body of knowledge as applies to motivations surrounding television use, specifically the cult television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Through the distribution of online survey it was found that respondents who read and/or wrote fanfiction were more likely to engage in the variable of parasocail relationships. One hypothesis was disregarded due to the invalidity of the variable. Through two research questions it was found that the variable of affinity was indicative of a viewer's involvement with the show. The second research question found only two marginally significant variables, personal identity and realism, with regard to the number of years one had been a fan of the show. Age was found to be significant in all the variables and was accounted for.<br>Department of Journalism
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Graham, Brita Marie. "Buffy at play tricksters, deconstruction, and chaos at work in the whedonverse /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/graham/GrahamB0507.pdf.

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Herrmann, Andrew F., Julia Barnhill, and Mary C. Poole. "The Scoobies, The Council, The Whirlwind, The Initiative: Portrayals of Organizing in Buffy The Vampire Slayer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/820.

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With the 2012 releases of The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers, writer/director Joss Whedon moved beyond his cult status and into the mainstream. His cult television work, however, remains admired in both the popular imagination and in the academic world of popular culture studies. This year’s CSCA13 corresponds with the ten-year anniversary of the cancellation of Whedon’s first successful cult television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedon’s other work, including Firefly, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog, Dollhouse, Angel, etc., are not only cult fan favorites, but favorites in popular culture academia. The participants on this panel will explore various aspects of Whedon and the Whedonverse, including: Whedon’s rhetorical framing regarding his transformation from cult director to mainstream phenom; his genre-bending frameworks across his various projects; his examination of gender roles; exploring and exploding Whedon’s use of mythology; and how Whedon’s characters manage to out-organize formal organizations.
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Herrmann, Andrew F., and Art Herbig. "All Too Human”: Xander Harris and the Embodiment of the Fully Human." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/756.

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Herrmann, Andrew F. ""C-can We Rest Now?": Foucault and the Multiple Discursive Subjectivities of Spike." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/753.

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Excerpt: Besides the lead character herself, the leather-clad vampire Spike -- introduced as the "Big Bad" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) Season 2 -- the most analyzed character in the Buffyverse.
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Whitman, Isabelle M. "Dante, Damnation, and The Undead: How The Conception of Hell Has Changed in Western Literature from Dante's Inferno to The Zombie Apocalypse." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1997.

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Dante's Inferno defined hell in Western literature for centuries; it was a physical place for sinners, they were subjected to physical torments, and it was in the afterlife. Dante’s depiction was firmly rooted in Christian theology. However, as fears and morals change, ideas of hell evolve as well. With the popularity of the zombie and other apocalypse narratives, these ideas return to the notion of physical torment and earthly places. In poetry, novels, theater, television, and film, writers examine different interpretations of hell, punishment, and redemption as metaphors for modern sins. In Sartre’s Huis clos, hell is a windowless room, and the tortures are inflicted psychologically by other people. In Romero’s Living Dead films, hell comes to earth, and the torments are both physical and psychological. Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows how hellish the common experiences of high school and growing up can be. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road examines hell as a lack of place, a relentless journey without end. In these and other works, the concept of hell is reinvented and replaced by new ideas, but the influence of the past iterations shapes the new landscapes.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Daniel Amos and Me: The Power of Pop Culture and Autoethnography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/752.

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Nearly everyone I know has a relationship with something in popular culture, whether it is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, amassing The Astonishing X-Men comics, or collecting every version of every Star Wars movie. Relationships and pop culture: couldn’t that make an autoethnography? This is a short version of my relationship with a band, Daniel Amos. I am not in Daniel Amos. I don’t know the members of the band (although I am Facebook friends with them now). I first heard them in 1982 serendipitously. Or maybe it was destiny. Either way, they opened my eyes to the wonders, doubts, and excesses of my life, critiqued my faith, and brought me joy. I feel like I know them, and they me. Thirty-one years after first hearing them, I realize our relationship is one of the longest I have had. We grew up and are growing older together.
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Smith, Ashley Lorrain. "Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2200/.

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This project is an interrogation of three examples from recent popular culture of girlculture, specifically texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because they not only reflect the influence of the feminist movement, they work on feminism's behalf. The project's methodology grows out of feminist film theories and cultural studies theories. One chapter is dedicated to each text, and each reading works to reappropriate girlculture texts for a counter-hegemonic agenda by highlighting the moments when each text manages to subvert its mass mediated conservative biases.
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Schill, Karin. "Femininity & Masculinity : - A Reception study about the construction of gender in four relationships on the TV-series Buffy & Angel." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Humanities, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2312.

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<p>Uppsatsens syfte är att analysera hur genus är konstruerat i fyra relationer i TV-serierna Buffy och vampyrerna och Angel. Målet är att ta reda på om karaktärerna har en traditionell, delad eller omvänd genuskonstruktion. Uppsatsen kommer att undersöka både hur maskulinitet och femininitet är konstruerat textuellt och hur relationerna uppfattas av en grupp fans. Studien kommer att redogöra för skillnader och likheter mellan de fyra paren. Paren som ingår i analysen är Buffy & Angel, Willow & Tara, Buffy & Spike liksom Angel & Cordy.</p><p>Studien är baserad på feministiska teorier av Liesbet Van Zoonen, Judith Butler och Lena Gemzöe. Men kommer också att inkludera en tillbakablick på hur genus representerades på TV under 1970 och 1980-talet som är presenterat av Barrie Gunter och hur uppfattningen av genus har ändrats sen dess. Några specifika teman som kommer att analyseras i uppsatsen är tv våld, sexualitet och egenskaper som anses mer manliga eller kvinnliga. Göran Erikssons teorier om receptionsstudier spelar också en viktig roll i detta kapitel. Teorikapitlet innehåller dock även några teorier om fankultur av John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, Lawrence Grossberg, John B. Thompson och Joli Jenson.</p><p>Metoden som används i uppsatsen är att göra en receptionsstudie med två lika stora delar. Den första delen är en semiotisk text analys baserad på teorier om TV koder av John Fiske. De valda koderna är utseende, kamera, handlingar och ljud och dialog. Urvalet för den semiotiska text analysen var totalt 35 scener från elva avsnitt av serierna. Den andra delen utgjordes av en kvalitativ intervjustudie med 16 fans av serierna och är baserad på metoder av Thomas R Lindlof och Larsåke Larsson. Metodkapitlet tar också hänsyn till några metodproblem och etiska frågor som uppstår när man intervjuar människor för en studie.</p><p>Uppsatsens semiotiska analys visade att TV koderna ger Buffy & Angel och Cordy & Angel en traditionell genus konstruktion där hon är kvinna och han är man. Även fast karaktärerna också har vissa drag som normalt tillskrivs det andra könet. Karaktären Buffy i synnerlighet har en delad genuskonstruktion, då hennes manliga sida kommer ut i hennes relation med Spike. Buffy & Spike och Willow & Tara har en delad genuskonstruktion där Willow och Buffy har flest manliga drag. Koderna av utseende och kamera reproducerar patriarkat mest medan koder som ljud, dialog, händelser och narrativ ger en mer komplex delad genuskonstruktion. Intervjustudien visade att de flesta fansen delade min tolkning av karaktärernas genuskonstruktion, men att de mediala texterna är öppna för motsatta och förhandlade tolkningar med. Det fanns vissa skillnader från mina tolkningar då fansen tillskrev Spike högre nivåer av kvinnlighet och Willow mer maskulinitet än jag gjort. Deras uppfattning av de specifika paren varierar också mycket beroende på deras egna åsikter och värderingar och alla fansen gör en tolkning som de föredrar.</p><p>Mina resultat ger stöd till tidigare forskning om genus på Buffy av Arwin Spicer, Susan A. Owens och Frances Early. De ger också stöd till tidigare forskning om fankultur och jag tycker att teorierna av John Fiske och Liesbet Van Zoonen i synnerlighet har varit användbara under uppsatsskrivandet. Trots att karaktären Buffy är mer kvinnlig än man först hade kunnat tro och att vissa fördomar lever kvar sedan 1970-talet så har Buffy hjälpt till att utveckla tv-landskapet. Intervjupersonerna i den här uppsatsen accepterar homosexualitet på TV. Serien visar även att det är okej för kvinnor att slås tillbaks och skickar ut ett feministiskt meddelande i det avseendet att intervjupersonerna anser att kvinnlig frigörelse är en bra sak och att Buffy är en förebild. För fortsatta studier vore det intressant att ta reda på hur feministiska nyare TV-serier är och vilken effekt serier som Buffy haft på den generationen som växte upp medan de tittade på den.</p>
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Conaway, Sandra B. "Girls Who (Don’t) Wear Glasses: The Performativity of Smart Girls on Teen Television." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182800368.

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Chambers, Leslie Ann B. "A Grammar of Consubstantiality: A Burkean Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Third-Person Identity Constitution in Science-Fiction Television." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152068821804109.

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Monnet-Cantagrel, Hélène. "Les Séries télévisées du format aux franchises. Pratique et esthétique des dramas américains de prime-time, créés entre 1996 et 2006." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA173.

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Les séries télévisées de fiction suscitent depuis quelques années un intérêt sans précédent dans leur histoire, qui amène à s’interroger sur le sens pris par cette forme de fiction. Mais, à cette question de la signification de l’objet, s’ajoute celle de la méthode permettant d’y répondre. Récits, fictions, les séries sont aussi des produits commerciaux et industriels et, de ce fait, fortement déterminées par leurs contextes de production et de réception.Depuis 1996 et la dérégulation des télécommunications aux Etats-Unis, le paysage médiatique et le marché télévisuel, américains puis internationaux, ont connu d’importants bouleversements économiques et technologiques dont une des conséquences a été l’adoption de stratégies d’expansion et de branding des programmes, qui prennent un tour inédit et auxquelles les séries n’échappent pas.Adaptées, dérivées, reprises, les séries, notamment dramatiques, se franchisent, faisant apparaître alors ce qui constitue une spécificité de la création sérielle, le format. Forme minimale de la fiction, le format consiste en une présentation écrite qui en fixe les constituants fondamentaux permettant non seulement sa sérialisation mais aussi sa distribution.A partir de formats et de franchises de séries dramatiques américaines de la décennie initiée à 1996, cette thèse se propose d’examiner en quoi le format pourrait contribuer à enrichir l’étude des séries télévisées dans une perspective autant théorique qu’interprétative<br>Since the beginning of the 2000s, television series arouse an unheard-of interest in their history, which brings to question the sense of this kind of fiction. But, in this issue of the meaning of the object, is also the one of the method to answer it.Narratives and fictions, series are also commercial and industrial products and, therefore, strongly determined by their contexts of production and reception. Since 1996 and the deregulation of telecommunications in the United States, american then international media landscapes and markets have known important economic and technological upheavals which led to new strategies of expansion and branding of the programs, in an unprecedented tourAdapted, spun off, remade, dramatic series lead to franchises, revealing then what establishes a specificity of the serial creation : the format. The television format is a written presentation which sets the fundamental core of the fiction, allowing not only serialization but also its distribution.Studying formats and franchises of American dramatic series of the decade introduced in 1996, this thesis examines how the television format could contribute to enrich the study of television series in a theoretical as well as in an interpretative objective
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Wells, Kimberly Ann. "Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6007.

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This project argues that there is a previously unnamed canon of literature called Magical Feminism which exists across many current popular (even lowbrow) genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, so-called realistic literature, and contemporary television and film. I define Magical Feminism as a genre quite similar to Magical Realism, but assert that its main political thrust is to model a feminist agency for its readers. To define this genre, I closely-read the image of the female magic user as one of the most important Magical Feminist metaphors. I argue that the female magic user–commonly called the witch, but also labeled priestess, mistress, shaman, mambo, healer, midwife– is a metaphor for female unruliness and disruption to patriarchy and as such, is usually portrayed as evil and deserving of punishment. I assert that many (although not all) of the popular texts this genre includes are overlooked or ignored by the academy, and thus, that an important focus for contemporary feminism is missed. When the texts are noticed by parts of the academy, they are mostly considered popular culture novelty acts, not serious political genres. As part of my argument, I analyze third wave feminism’s attempt to reconcile traits previously considered less than feminist, such as the domestic. I also deconstruct the popular media’s negative portrayal of contemporary feminism and the resulting reluctance for many young women to identify themselves as feminist. I also argue that this reluctance goes hand in hand with a growing attempt to seek new models for empowering female epistemologies. My assertion is that these texts are the classrooms where many readers learn their feminism. Finally, I list a short bibliography as a way of defining canon of texts that should be considered Magical Feminist.
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Thomas, Quincy D. "Lycra, Legs, and Legitimacy: Performances of Feminine Power in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1521852471021414.

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McTee, Sasha. "But, You're Just A Girl." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1655.

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This paper explores an emerging genre of the female hero archetype that is rooted in Joseph Campbell’s traditional definition and exemplified by Buffy Summers of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kara “Starbuck” Thrace of Battlestar Galactica. As representations of the female hero within this genre, they reimagine pre-existing stereotypes, such as the female victim and the male hotshot pilot, and then pursue a hero’s journey of death and resurrection that is unique because of their gender. This new trend is the result of third-wave feminism and necessary for the further development of feminist literary works, particularly within the realm of Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
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Cochran, Tanya R. "Toward a Rhetoric of Scholar-Fandom." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/51.

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Individuals who consider themselves both scholars and fans represent not only a subculture of fandom but also a subculture of academia. These liminal figures seem suspicious to many of their colleagues, yet they are particularly positioned not only to be conduits to engaged learning for students but also to transform the academy by chipping away at the stereotypes that support the symbolic walls of the Ivory Tower. Because they are growing in number and gaining influence in academia, the scholar-fans of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy) and other texts by creator Joss Whedon are one focus of this dissertation. Though Buffy academics or Whedon scholars are not the only ones of their kind (e.g., academic- fan communities have cropped up around The Simpsons, The Matrix Trilogy, and the Harry Potter franchise), they have produced more literature and are more organized than any other academic-fan community. I approach all of my subjects—fandom, academia, fan-scholars, and scholar-fans—from a multidisciplinary perspective, employing various methodologies, including autoethnography and narrative inquiry. Taking several viewpoints and using mixed methods best allows me to begin identifying and articulating a rhetoric of scholar-fandom. Ultimately, I claim that Whedon academic-fans employ a discourse marked by intimacy, community, reciprocity, and transformation. In other words, the rhetoric of Whedon scholar-fandom promotes an epistemology—a way of knowing—that in Parker J. Palmer’s paradigm is personal, communal, reciprocal, and transformational.
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Bacon, Edwin Bruce. "Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9680.

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When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities. I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series
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Porter, Nicole. "In search of the slayer : audience negotiation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Thesis, 2004. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/7907/1/MQ91104.pdf.

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In March, 1997, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on the WB network, introducing television viewers to Buffy Summers, a California cheerleader with a calling to save the world from innumerable demons and otherworldly beasts. Buffy's challenge to gender norms as a female warrior, alongside her penchant for shopping, place her firmly within the Girl Power debate. Scholars and the press alike have weighed in on the meaning of this complex series. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the voices of the audience into this discussion. Using a combination of interviews and questionnaires, I investigate how viewers negotiate the contradictions in the show and the work they do as audience members. My participants' responses go beyond merely interpreting a television series. Buffy the Vampire Slayer became a forum for debate and a site of community building. The series was a catalyst for debating Girl Power and feminism: intersecting, reflecting and informing feminist discourses. Furthermore, my participants described a detailed and nuanced depiction of ideal communities in the series, one they identified with and emulated in their own lives. This research indicates how a series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer can extend beyond the viewing experience itself.
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Shepherd, Dawn Renee. "Marketing subjectivity Buffy the vampire slayer and construction of the problematic female television audience /." 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04012004-143839/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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Pia, Kristina, and 松超文. "Ghostly Bodies of Knowledge: Authorship, History Writing and Visual Language in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b26q39.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文學研究所<br>96<br>This paper addresses the representation of authorship and history writing in the visual language of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an American TV show whose vibrant afterlife in unauthorized fan fiction has caused much discussion of the limits and possibilities of shared authorship and the appropriation of intellectual property. The project points at similar tensions between authoritative and unauthorized writing within the canonical text. Focusing on the insistent visual presence of “ancient” bodies of knowledge – leather bound books and black-letter print records – in this late modern television program, this paper will read BtVS as a show about history writing – more precisely, a show that suggests the tasks of vamping and slaying as historicist writing projects battling for the power of definition. I ask how the program complicates historicist concepts of authorship from within, and visually interferes with its protagonists'' never-ending struggle for defining authoritative, universal master versions of history. Framing my argument in post-colonial theory and especially the critique of historicism, I hope to show that the shape and form of “authoritative” knowledge in this modern vampire fiction can “speak” the politics implied in the ways stories are told.
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Lin, Liang-Chih, and 林良至. "Blondes and the Horror Genre: the Subversion of Gender and Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95793317558953379801.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文學研究所<br>95<br>The thesis aims to illuminate the transforming relationship between blondes and the horror genre from Hollywood movies to television series. Through reading three blonde characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, I argue that blondes do not necessarily have to comply with the formula of becoming monsters or killers'' targets in the horror genre because they have the potential to rescue themselves and even confront their fear. The issue of gender-bias problematizes the patriarchal domination in the production of the Hollywood horror. Therefore,my readings of the authorities are situated on an analytical frame of questioning the validity of the educational, legal and family ideological state apparatuses, which formulate the menace to the three blonde characters in the series. From their roles as a vampire slayer, a police officer and a vampire mother, the conflicting nature of their gendered identities simultaneously raises the doubts of their dedication to their belief and responsibilities. Finally,they aspire to find the meanings of their existence in quest of autonomy because what they are hoping for is redemption.
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Musgrove, Kristie Leigh. "Lilith rising American gothic fiction and the evolution of the female hero in Sarah Wood's Julia and the illuminated baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The hidden hand, and Joss Whedon's Buffy The vampire slayer /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1096.

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Ross, Sharon Marie. "Super(natural) women female heroes, their friends, and their fans /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3110683.

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