(Part five of five) Bibliography “The Wish.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Writ. Marti Noxon. Dir. David Greenwalt. 20th Century Fox, 2003. DVD. “Superstar.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Writ. Jane Espenson. Dir. David Grossman. 20th Century Fox, 2003. DVD. “Normal Again.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Writ. Diego Gutierrez. Dir. Rick Rosenthal. 20th Century Fox, 2004….
Control and Gendered Subjectivity: Alternate Realities and Perceptions in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Buffy, and Serenity (Section 3)
(Part four of five) Section 3 – Internal States “Normal Again” reveals a distressing portion of Buffy’s past and an anxiety that is exploited by the demon in her hallucination. She is told by her parents and the doctor in this that her life as a slayer and her friends in Sunnydale are all…
Control and Gendered Subjectivity: Alternate Realities and Perceptions in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Buffy, and Serenity (Section 2)
(Part three of five) Section 2 – The Nightmare: Hallucinations and Other Altered Perceptions Hallucinations and other trance states in the Whedonverse function as nightmares. They aggressively suppress the characters and are weaponized, deliberately caused by enemies who intend to control and direct their subjects. The device reveals and exploits the characters’ anxieties and…
Control and Gendered Subjectivity: Alternate Realities and Perceptions in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Buffy, and Serenity (Section 1)
(Part two of five) Section 1 – The Fantasy: Alternate Realities The two most concrete instances of alternate realities in Buffy function as the indulging of one character’s fantasy. Jonathan casts a spell in “Superstar” to make himself a popular celebrity with abilities and accomplishments that include starring in the Matrix, inventing the internet,…
Control and Gendered Subjectivity: Alternate Realities and Perceptions in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Buffy, and Serenity (Introduction)
(Note: this is the first of five parts presented in five separate posts) The landscapes of science fiction and fantasy film and television have never been quite stable. This is typically attributed to the genres’ embracing of grand and imaginative narrative devices. Screenwriter, producer, and director Joss Whedon is also fond of them, and his…
10: Open Letter
Dear Joss, After a semester of poring over the inner mechanisms of your works in a class dedicated to them, and analyzing your public and creator persona in award acceptance speeches, interviews, commentary videos and the like, I still have many questions. On your intentions, your thought process, why you do what you do. And…
#9 .GIF your research
The focus of my final project will be on the diegetic construction of false realities in the Whedonverse. When thinking of this theme, the most obvious example that comes to mind is Cabin In the Woods. In this movie, we get to be in on the behind-the-scenes operation of a familiar teen horror narrative instead…
Blog Prompt 8: Wiki Editing
Looking around on the Firefly/Serenity wiki, I noticed that a large portion of the content was dedicated to plot points and internal (with some inter-textual) references in Firefly and Serenity, as expected. While contributing to the community, I was surprised by how simple the editing process was. The last step was submitting a short explanation…
Blog prompt #7: Peer Response
This year’s Emmy awards show was presented as a celebration of the increasing diversity and progressiveness in television. Although the overall message was clear, it unfortunately wasn’t the case that the show stuck to this self-presented standard. In “Discussion Post #1: The Emmys: A Fight for Authorial Control? Paratexts and Sterling K. Brown”, Amanda brings…
Prompt #6: Close-Reading Fan Fiction
“Not For Sale” is a slash fanfic by Omorka on Archive of Our Own that pairs up Malcolm and Simon from Joss Whedon’s TV show, Firefly. In the short story, Simon treats Mal’s wounds from a bar fight after retrieving him from a jail cell. It is revealed that the fight broke out because Mal…
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