11. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Show That Spawned An Academic Discipline
The TV sets in the ivory towers only have bunny ears for one show: Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series has been so endlessly dissected and deconstructed by scholars that it’s formed its own loose academic discipline, Buffy Studies. It even has its own peer-reviewed academic journal, Slayage, giving new meaning to the phrase “publish or perish.”
Our favorite scholarship from Slayage:
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“Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional Excess and the New Economy of Power” * “I Hear It’s Best to Play Along: The Poststructuralist Turn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” * “It’s Bloody Brilliant: The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy” * “Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer—A Quantitative Analysis”
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