From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V4 #55 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, April 26 2002 Volume 04 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- =Fighting the Forces= ["Donald G. Keller" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:53:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: =Fighting the Forces= It's brag day. I got home yesterday to find in my mailbox my contributor's copy of =Fighting the Forces= (David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox, eds.; Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2002)--though I still haven't seen a copy for sale in a store. My essay starts on p. 165. I haven't reread it yet--I'm basking in the euphoria of having a copy of the book finally--but I'm a little anxious about the copyedit, since they took away my hyphens in the title (properly "Spirit-Guides and Shadow-Selves"). Looks like some other interesting essays as well. I also haven't noted the publication of =Reading the Vampire Slayer= (Roz Kaveny, ed.; London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2001), which I've had for a month or two; this one you can find at Barnes & Noble. I recommend it; Kaveney's introduction is a very good survey of the entire show, and there are a number of good essays in there. There will be a third book of =Buffy= essays later this year called =Red Noise= (damn, don't have the pub info handy), a couple of essays from which I have found on the net. One of them is by Henry Jenkins, whose important book =Textual Poachers= (Routledge 1992) I just got a copy of: it's an excellent look at "television fans and participatory culture," as the subtitle reveals. I'll say more about it as I read more of it. A later transcribed speech by Jenkins called "The Poachers and the Stormtroopers" updates his book, and can be found at the following url: commons.somewhere.com/rre/1998/The.Poachers.and.the.Sto.html His essay for =Red Noise= can be found at: web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/buffy.html It's called "The Monsters Next Door," and is in dialogue form with his son, concerning parent/teen issues as portrayed on =Buffy=. Haven't read it all yet, but it looks excellent. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V4 #55 ****************************