Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire SlayerJodie A. Kreider, Meghan K. Winchell McFarland, 10 jan 2014 - 231 pagina's This book combines the academic and practical aspects of teaching by exploring the ways in which Buffy the Vampire Slayer is taught, internationally, through both interdisciplinary and discipline-based approaches. Essays describe how Buffy can be used to explain--and encourage further discussion of--television's narrative complexity, archetypal characters, morality, feminism, identity, ethics, non-verbal communication, film production, media and culture, censorship, and Shakespeare, among other topics. |
Inhoudsopgave
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To Spoil or Not to Spoil | 7 |
Have You Tried Not Being a Slayer? Performing Buffy Fandom in the Classroom | 22 |
And the Myth Becomes Flesh | 35 |
Round Up the Usable Suspects | 46 |
Heroism on the Hellmouth | 61 |
Whedon Takes the Scary Out of Feminism | 73 |
Buffy Goes to College | 83 |
Show Dont Tell | 126 |
Television Violence and Demons | 136 |
Weeding Out the Offensive Material | 146 |
Best Damn Field Trip I Ever Took Historical Encounters In and Out of the Classroom | 158 |
Little Red Riding Buffy? Buffy vs Dracula in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English | 169 |
Buffy the Black Feminist? Intersectionality and Pedagogy | 186 |
Slaying Shakespeare in High School | 202 |
About the Contributors | 213 |
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