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Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

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Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

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Open Court
Language
English
Pages
335

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Subjects
Motion pictures, Miscellanea, Philosophy, Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program), Television programs, Moral and ethical aspects, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)
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Buffy Summers

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Table of Contents

''What a lot of fun--you guys have been real swell.'' -- Acknowledgments Page ix
''And was there a lesson in all this?'' -- Introduction Page 1 Codex i. ''It's kind of a Slayer thing'' -- Buffy, Faith, and Feminism Page 5 Chapter 1. Faith and Plato: "You're nothing! Disgusting, murderous bitch!" -- Greg Forster Page 7 Chapter 2. Also Sprach Faith: the Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer -- Karl Schudt Page 20 Chapter 3. "The I in Team": Buffy and Feminist Ethics -- Jessica Prata Miller Page 35 Chapter 4. ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' as Feminist ''Noir'' -- Thomas Hibbs Page 49 Chapter 5. Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass -- Mimi Marinucci Page 61 Codex ii. ''Don't speak Latin in front of the books'' -- Knowledge, Rationality, and Science in the Buffyverse Page 77 Chapter 6. Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond -- Andrew Aberdein Page 79 Chapter 7. Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars -- Madeline M. Muntersbjorn Page 91 Chapter 8. Between Heaven and Hells: The Multidimensional Universe in Kant and ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' -- James Lawler Page 103 Chapter 9. Buffy Goes to College, Adam Murders to Dissect: Education and Knowledge in Postmodernity -- Toby Daspit Page 117 Chapter 10. "My God, It's Like a Greek Tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality -- James B. South Page 131 Codex iii. ''You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you?” -- Buffy and Ethics Page 147 Chapter 11. Should We Do What Buffy Would Do? -- Jason Kawal Page 149 Chapter 12. Passion and Action: in and Out of Control -- Carolyn Korsmeyer Page 160 Chapter 13. Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox -- Melissa M. Milavec and Sharon M. Kaye Page 173 Chapter 14. A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' -- Scott R. Stroud Page 185 Codex iv. ''That's the kind of wooly-headed thinking that leads to being eaten'' -- Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse Page 195 Chapter 15. Brownskirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon -- Neal King Page 197 Chapter 16. Prophecy Girl and The Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse -- Wendy Love Anderson Page 212 Chapter 17. Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse -- Jacob M. Held Page 227 Chapter 18. No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption -- Gregory J. Sakal Page 239 Chapter 19. Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse -- Jeffrey L. Pasley Page 254 Codex v. ''You're all slaves to the television'' -- Watching Buffy Page 269 Chapter 20. Morality on Television: The Case of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' -- Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen Page 271 Chapter 21. High School Is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' -- Tracy Little Page 282 Chapter 22. Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door -- Michael Levine and Steven Jay Schneider Page 294 ''I have a hard enough time remembering what happened last week.'' -- A Guide to ''BtVS'' and ''Angel'' Episodes Page 309 ''Oh yeah? Let's look at your bio.'' -- About the Authors Page 317 ''We've got a lot of important work here: a lot of filing, giving things names.'' -- Index Page 323

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Popular culture and philosophy ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.45/72
Library of Congress
PN1992.77.B84 B835 2003, PN1992.77.B84B835

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 335 p. ;
Number of pages
335

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3671753M
Internet Archive
buffyvampireslay00sout
ISBN 10
0812695305, 0812695313
LCCN
2003001134
OCLC/WorldCat
51481996
Library Thing
44985
Goodreads
31912

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