From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #67 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Thursday, March 23 2000 Volume 02 : Number 067 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer [allenw ] Re: B/ New episode descriptions for 4/4/00 [meredith ] b/buffybook ["Donald G. Keller" ] b/faustus ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: b/buffybook ["David S. Bratman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:59:31 -0600 (EST) From: allenw Subject: b/Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Donald, Are you aware of the call for essays for a book called "Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer", edited by Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery? If not, you probably should be. here's their web site: http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/buffybook.html . I know nothing of the editors except what's on their site. -Allen W. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:11:20 -0500 From: Dori Subject: Re: B/ New episode descriptions for 4/4/00 > a young actress (guest star Tamara >Gorski No. No, no, no, no, no. If she brings that godawful Irish accent with her, I'm just keeping the Wesley scenes, I swear. - -- Dori cleindor@cfw.com - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Torture first. It's better that way. Troll maxim - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:46:10 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: B/ New episode descriptions for 4/4/00 Hi! Dori lamented: >If she brings that godawful Irish accent with her, I'm just keeping >the Wesley scenes, I swear. I think she'll be leaving the accent at home. (Maybe she can take hers and Boreanaz's and bury them in the same bucket. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:19:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/buffybook [e-mail announcement:] =Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer= Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery solicit your ideas, abstracts, or completed essays for an in-development book on =Buffy the Vampire Slayer=. The series is the intersection of many contending forces--gender, generation, culture, and more. Buffy's complex and ambivalent heroism is central to a series which is itself complex both thematically and structurally. From its language to its narrative arcs, from single characters to social cohorts, from pop culture allusions to foreshadowings of Columbine, Buffy constitutes a text worth of study and appreciation. Possible topics range from allusions and ancillary texts to vampires, women in production, and Xander. Please see our website at http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/buffybook.html or contact us by email: Rhonda Wilcox Humanities Gordon College Barnesville, GA 30204 rhonda_w@falcon.gdn.peachnet.edu David Lavery English Dept. P.O. Box 70 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 dlavery@frank.mtsu.edu [website text:] Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery, the editors of an in-development book, =Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer=, solicit your possible contributions. We welcome proposals (including at least a full paragraph description of your essay and a title) or completed essays (published or unpublished) before April 15. Completed essays--10 to 15 double spaced pages is the suggested length--will then be requested by the end of this summer. Please contact the editors via e-mail with questions or to send your proposals. We are open to all kinds of ideas on any aspect of the series and/or its television context. Here are some possible topics: * allusions * ancillary texts (comics, novels, etc.) * Angel * the audience of =Buffy= * Auteur television * =Buffy= and Columbine * =Buffy= and queer theory * the =Buffy= film * =Buffy= from a content analysis perspective * =Buffy= from a cultural studies perspective * =Buffy= from a feminist perspective * =Buffy= from a Lacanian perspective * =Buffy= from a narratological perspective * =Buffy= from a reader/viewer response perspective * =Buffy= from a semiotic perspective * =Buffy= in the media * =Buffy= on the Internet * Cordelia Chase * directors (other than Whedon) * doubling * dreams in =Buffy= * Drusilla * estrangement * Faith * fan fiction * Riley Finn * gender * generational icon or Gen X depictions * genre * humor * individual episodes * individual seasons * The Initiative * intertextuality * language * location and meaning: Sunnydale * magic * marketing =Buffy= * Mayor Wilkins * a =mise-en-scene= analysis * the monsters * music * postmodernism and =Buffy= * quality TV and =Buffy= * representation of college * representation of high school * representation of teens * role models * romance * Rupert Giles * self-referentiality * Spike * story arcs * subplots * subtexts * Buffy Summers * Joyce Summers * themes * the title sequence * vampire mythology * violence/action * Joss Whedon * the uncanny * Watchers/the Watchers Council * Wesley Wyndham-Price * Willow Rosenberg * witchcraft/Wicca * women in production * writers (other than Whedon) * Xander Harris =Rhonda V. Wilcox= is Professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, GA. The author of numerous essays on popular culture, including "'There Will Never Be a Very Special =Buffy='": =Buffy= and the Monsters of Teen Life" in =The Journal of Popular Film and Television= [1999]), she wrote the chapter on television for the forthcoming =Handbook of American Popular Culture= (Third Edition), and, with J. P. Williams, is the author of =Unreal TV= (forthcoming). She is a member of the editorial board of =Studies in Popular Culture=. Her e-mail address is RHONDA_W@falcon.gdn.peachnet.edu =David Lavery= is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. The author of over thirty essays in journals ranging from =Parabola= to =Georgia Review= and author/editor-co-editor of =Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age =(Southern Illinois University Press, 1992), =Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Wayne State University Press, 1994), ="Deny All Knowledge": Reading The X-Files= (Syracuse University Press, 1996), =Twin Peaks in the Rearview Mirror: Appraisals and Reappraisals of the Show that Was Supposed to Change TV= (forthcoming). His e-mail address is dlavery@frank.mtsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:21:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/faustus Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul. See where it flies! Come Helen, come, give me my soul again. --Christopher Marlowe, =Doctor Faustus= !!!!! (Need I belabor the parallels here to the Buffy & Angel Chronicles?)(Actually, "make me immortal with a kiss" sounds more like Darla...) (How =do= these tropes replicate themselves?) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:26:38 -0500 (EST) From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: b/buffybook David Lavery! Oh, I've heard of him; indeed I have. He's one of the two or three academics out there who are actually experts on Owen Barfield. But his specialty is TV criticism, and he's already edited two other books like this, one on X-Files and one on Twin Peaks. He's also a colleague of the new editor of Mythlore, Theodore Sherman (that is, they both teach at the same English department, at Middle Tennessee State U.) I haven't actually read any of Lavery's criticism, but I've certainly heard of him in these contexts, and my guess is you'd be in good hands, and that they'd be willing to give a hearing to an "independent scholar" (as the term is) like yourself. Go for it, by all means. DB ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #67 ****************************