Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-439) and index
Contents:
Part One: Buffy the vampire slayer From beneath you, it foreshadows : why Buffy's first season matters / David Kociemba Hero's journey, heroine's return? : Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus myth / Janet K. Halfyard "It's like some primal, some animal force ... that used to be us" : animality, humanity, and moral careers in the Buffyverse / Ananya Mukherjea "Can I spend the night alone?" : segments and connections in "Conversations with dead people" / Rhonda V. Wilcox Hey, respect the narrative flow much? : problematic storytelling in Buffy the vampire slayer / Richard S. Albright All Those apocalypses : disaster studies and community in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Linda J. Jencson Part Two: Angel "Enough of the action, let's get back to dancing" : Joss Whedon directs Angel / Stacey Abbott What the hell? : Angel's "The girl in question" / Cynthea Masson Part Three: Firefly and Serenity Firefly : of formats, franchises, and Fox / Matthew Pateman "Wheel Never Stops Turning" : space and time in Firefly and Serenity / Alyson R. Buckman Metaphoric unity and ending : sending and receiving Firefly's last "message" Part Four: Dollhouse Reflections in the pool : Echo, Narcissus, and the male gaze in Dollhouse / K. Dale Koontz "There is no me; I'm just a container" : law and the loss of personhood in Dollhouse / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan Part Five: Beyond the box Joining the evil league of evil : the rhetoric of posthuman negotiation in Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog / Victoria Willis Buffy's season eight, image and text : superhero self-fashioning / Marni Stanley Watchers in the woods : meta-horror, genre hybridity, and reality TV critique in The cabin in the woods / Kristopher Karl Woofter Joss Whedon throws his mighty shield : Marvel's The Avengers as war movie / Ensley F. Guffey Part Six: Overarching topics Stuffing a rabbit in It : character, narrative, and the time in the Whedonverses / Lorna Jowett Adventures in the moral imagination : memory and identity in Whedon's narrative ethics / J. Douglas Rabb and J. Michael Richardson Technology and magic : Joss Whedon's explorations of the mind / Jeffrey Bussolini From old heresies to future paradigms : Joss Whedon on body and soul / Gregory Erickson "Hot chicks with superpowers" : the contested feminism of Joss Whedon / Lauren Schultz A living history of Whedon studies, 1999-2013 / Tanya R. Cochran
