From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V5 #94 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Friday, May 23 2003 Volume 05 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/chosen [Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury ] Re: b/chosen ["jzitt@metatronpress.com" ] Fwd: 2 new books on Xena, Buffy [meredith ] b/weekly standard article [meredith ] Re: b/weekly standard article [Todd Huff ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:49:45 -0600 From: Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury Subject: Re: b/chosen At 10:46 PM 5/20/03 -0600, Susan Kroupa wrote: >I found the ending satisfying though--and just the right balance of comedy >and tragedy that Joss seems to get perfectly and other writers don't always >quite get. Amen! I loved how Joss managed to empower females even more than he has already. Cool! At 08:13 AM 5/21/03 -0400, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: >Did anybody else feel like the ending was a premise for a new series or >something? A group of intrepid heroes drive cross country in a school bus, >looking for potentials and fighting demons. Each week they stop in a new >town and wackyness ensues.... (The worst part is that I'd be happy to watch >it.) I'd watch it, too. At 11:02 PM 5/21/03 -0400, Robert Stacy wrote: > I never expected that Dawn--whether via Key-itude, or simple >sisterly feistiness--would be pivotal in defeating the First. >There was no "viewer refresh" this season to set up anything >to do with Dawn's fifth-season significance as the Key. Dawn >is now Dawn, Buffy's sister. She's got moxie, but "Potential"-- >if only metaphorically--pretty much established her role for the >remainder of the season. Didn't she call herself "assistant Watcher" at one point? Sounds like the perfect job description for her and what she does. Phaedre/Kathleen workshop@burgoyne.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:24 -0400 From: "jzitt@metatronpress.com" Subject: Re: b/chosen I just had the possibly silly thought that the school bus crew would face the continuing frustration of having to explain that the empowering of the Slayers wasn't due to Jasmine. And depending on how they'd paint the bus, it could explain the secret connection between the Scooby Gang and the Partridge Family. Original Message: - ----------------- From: Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury workshop@burgoyne.com Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:49:45 -0600 To: stillpt@smoe.org Subject: Re: b/chosen At 08:13 AM 5/21/03 -0400, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: >Did anybody else feel like the ending was a premise for a new series or >something? A group of intrepid heroes drive cross country in a school bus, >looking for potentials and fighting demons. Each week they stop in a new >town and wackyness ensues.... (The worst part is that I'd be happy to watch >it.) I'd watch it, too. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:54:31 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Fwd: 2 new books on Xena, Buffy Hi, This was just posted to the Xena list I run. Thought it might be of interest here. >new book-- >Athena's Daughters : Television's New Women Warriors / edited by >Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse University Press, 2003. >hardback, $39.95. paperback, $19.95. >175 p. >Contents --The baby, the mother, and the empire: Xena as ancient hero / >by Alison Futrell -- Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the >wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / by Helen Caudill >-- Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior >in Xena, Warrior Princess / by Kathleen Kennedy -- The female just warrior >reimagined: from Boudicca to Buffy / by Frances Early -- "If you're not >enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions >of Faith, the Vampire Slayer / by Sue Tjardes - "Action, chicks, everything": >on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / by Lee >Parpart -- Buffy? she's like me, she's not like --she's Rad / by Vivian >Chin --"The >most >powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / by >Laura Ng -- We who are Borg, are we Borg? / by Edrie Sobstyl. > >That's 3 essays on Xena, 4 on Buffy and one each on Nikita and Star >Trek: Voyager. That's about the same ratio as their standing with critics. > >Library Journal, May 15, 2003, p. 91, has this review -- >In recent shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, >Star Trek Voyager and La Femme Nikita, we have seen capable and >proactive female characters rise up and dominate. This work, a critical >study of those shows and their female lead characters, examines just >what makes the woman warrior different from her male counterpart. >Both historians, editors Early (Mount St. Vincent Univ., Nova Scotia) >and Kennedy (Western Washington Univ.) have gathered penetrating >essays on these shows from a range of women commentators, whose >subjects range from feminism and TV series violence to how popular >culture treats women. Separating itself from episode guides and "making-of" >books, this study succeeds admirably in its aim to give credence to >women action heroes as a valid area of popular culture study and to show >that these series deserve scholarly attention. Dawn Heinecken's forthcoming >The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New >Female Body in Popular Media deals with much the same subject. >Recommended for libraries focusing on media and popular culture >studies. -- David M. Lisa, West Long Branch Public Library, N.J.-- >reviewer. > >The Heinecken book mentioned in the review is to come out in July >from P. Lang publishers. No other information currently available. =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:25:21 -0400 From: meredith Subject: b/weekly standard article Hi, There is a flood of articles out there right now, but this one stands out: http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/706fyuan.asp I'm still working on my all-time top 10. I definitely know "Doppelgangland" will end up in the top three. Somehow I think mine will be the only list with that configuration ... =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Huff Subject: Re: b/weekly standard article - --- meredith wrote: > Hi, > > There is a flood of articles out there right now, > but this one stands out: > > http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/706fyuan.asp > > I'm still working on my all-time top 10. I > definitely know > "Doppelgangland" will end up in the top three. > Somehow I think mine will > be the only list with that configuration ... > > Top Ten on my part, possibly. Not Top Three though, no. . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! 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