Slaying is Hell

Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse

Buckman Alyson R., Juliette C. Kitchens, Katherine A. Troyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8216-7 (ISBN)

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Reveals the ways in which the Whedonverse treats the trauma of ordinary life with similar gravitas as trauma created by the supernatural, illustrating how memories are lost, transformed, utilized, celebrated, revered, questioned, feared and rebuffed within the storyworlds created by Joss Whedon and his collaborators.

The films, television shows and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship and saving the world. This collection of essays reveals the ways in which the Whedonverse treats the trauma of ordinary life with similar gravitas as trauma created by the supernatural, illustrating how memories are lost, transformed, utilized, celebrated, revered, questioned, feared and rebuffed within the storyworlds created by Joss Whedon and his collaborators.

Through a variety of approaches and examinations, the essays in this book seek to understand how the themes of trauma, memory, and identity enrich one another in the Whedonverse and beyond. As the authors present different arguments and focus on various texts, the essays work to build a mosaic of the trauma found in beloved works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse and more. The book concludes with a meta-analysis that explores the allegations of various traumas made against Joss Whedon himself.

Alyson R. Buckman is a professor in and current chair of the humanities and religious studies department at California State University, Sacramento. She has published on Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, The Gilmore Girls, Orphan Black, and the Whedonverse. Juliette C. Kitchens is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Communication at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She teaches an array of courses focused on the rhetorics of popular culture and has published in Studies in Popular Culture. Katherine A. Troyer is the assistant director of The Collaborative for Learning and Teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, she teaches, writes, and podcasts (as a co-host of Such a Nightmare) about all things horror.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome to the Hellmouth: Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse
Katherine A. Troyer
"That has nothing to do with today": The Whedonverse and the Dangers of Rewriting Historical Memory
Erin Giannini
Unwanted Memories: When Heroines Choose Trauma Over Amnesia
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Restless Death: Memory and Transmedial Bodies in the Buffyverse
Juliette C. Kitchens
Dismembering (the) Buffybot
Madeline Muntersbjorn
"Better": Trauma, Romantic Attachment, and the Victor/Sierra Arc in Dollhouse
Renee St. Louis
"Now you don't have to use this color anymore": Art Therapy in Dollhouse and Orphan Black
Janet Brennan Croft
Such Pretty Things: Madness in the Whedonverse
Catherine Pugh
Conclusion: "We had our own hellmouth": The Allegations Against Joss Whedon
Alyson R. Buckman
About the Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Whedon
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4766-8216-X / 147668216X
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8216-7 / 9781476682167
Zustand	Neuware