Pateman Joss Whedon

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4157-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: The Television Series

A comprehensive analysis of Whedon’s role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely contribution to TV scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pateman, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I
1 ‘Buffy is the Slayer. Don’t tell anyone’: creating a cultural phenomenon: the first three years of Buffy
2 ‘How do you know what this guy’s gonna do?’ Producing worlds, changing worlds 1999–2004
3 ‘There are so many things I’d like to be’: multi-media polymath and rise of mainstream cult 2005–17
Part II
4 ‘I must say, it’s a delightful change to have someone else around who can explain these matters’: narrative and genre: the exposition scene in Buffy
5 ‘I love a story with scope’: narratives in Angel: cross overs, complexity and conclusions
6 ‘Come with me now, if you will, gentle viewers’: non-Whedon scripted episodes: Jane Espenson, popular culture and authorship
7 ‘Why’d this get so complicated?’ Narrative and televisual analysis: a brief excursus using Firefly
8 ‘I can bring back the world’: Dollhouse: narrating the tabula rasa
Coda: ‘I’m not done baking’
Appendix 1: Jane Espenson correspondence
Appendix 2: Definitive guide to Whedon output week-by-week
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Pateman is Head of Department of Media at Edge Hill University and Professor of Contemporary Popular Aesthetics