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Slayer Studies
Theses and papers from around the world about Buffy, Angel and the Whedonverse – as PDFs, sorted by topic.
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TopicWomen, gender & sexuality
English"Every Night I Save You": Buffy, Spike, Sex and RedemptionRhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)PDF · 116 kBRead →English"First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait'": Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire SlayerCarolyn CoccaPDF · 126 kBRead →English"It’s Bloody Brilliant!" The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of BuffyArwen SpicerPDF · 176 kBRead →English"Killing us Softly"? A Feminist Search for the "Real" BuffySherryl VintPDF · 773 kBRead →English"Love’s Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It": Spike’s Hybridized GenderArwen SpicerPDF · 115 kBRead →English"Queen C" Goes to Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's HouseElizabeth RamboPDF · 115 kBRead →EnglishAint Love Grand, Spike and Courtly LoveVictoria SpahPDF · 126 kBRead →EnglishDriving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVSBrett Rogers and Walter ScheidelPDF · 185 kBRead →EnglishFan Readings of Sex and Violence on BuffyDawn HeineckenPDF · 137 kBRead →EnglishGirl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media FandomJudith TabronPDF · 185 kBRead →EnglishKiss the Librarian, But Close the Hellmouth: “It’s Like a Whole Big Sucking Thing”Kevin McNeilly, Sue Fisher, Christina SylkaPDF · 116 kBRead →EnglishLove, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender and Identity in Buffy and AngelJanet K. HalfyardPDF · 106 kBRead →EnglishPassion, pain and ‘bad kissing decisions’: learning about intimate relationships from Buffy Season SixAngie BurnsPDF · 126 kBRead →EnglishQueer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of CampCynthea Masson and Marni StanleyPDF · 173 kBRead →EnglishSlaying the PatriarchyHolly ChandlerPDF · 150 kBRead →EnglishSolving Problems with Sharp Objects, Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in BuffyGwyn SymondsPDF · 164 kBRead →EnglishSomeone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy — A Quantitative AnalysisPaul D. ShapiroPDF · 143 kBRead →EnglishStaking Her Claim, Buffy as Transgressive Woman WarriorFrances EarlyPDF · 137 kBRead →EnglishVampires and School Girls: High School Highjinks on the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire SlayerGina WiskerPDF · 177 kBRead →EnglishWhy We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy Wound Up Dating the EnemyHilary M. LeonPDF · 232 kBRead →EnglishXander, Patriarchy, and the Presentation of Realistic Gender Politics in BtVSMarc CamronPDF · 135 kBRead →EnglishYou Hod Your Gun Like A Sissy GirlStevie SimkinPDF · 134 kBRead →English“I Made a Promise to a Lady”: Law and Love in BtVSAnthony BradneyPDF · 159 kBRead →English“I Think I’m Kinda Gay”: Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire SlayerEm McAvanPDF · 125 kBRead →English“When You Kiss Me, I want to Die”: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire SlayerAnanya MukherjeaPDF · 181 kBRead →
TopicPhilosophy, ethics & religion
English"A Religion in Narrative": Joss Whedon and Television CreativityDavid LaveryPDF · 118 kBRead →EnglishBuffy the Vampire Slayer in the Business Ethics ClassroomHoward HarrisPDF · 123 kBRead →EnglishBuffy vs the BBC, Moral Questions and How to Avoid ThemVivien BurrPDF · 85 kBRead →EnglishIs Joss Becoming a Thomist?Agnes CurryPDF · 135 kBRead →EnglishMoral Complexity in the BuffyverseJ. Robert LoftisPDF · 161 kBRead →EnglishOn the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7James SouthPDF · 150 kBRead →EnglishPerformance of PSike and the Ambiguity of Evil in SunnydaleGwyn SymondsPDF · 183 kBRead →EnglishRevisiting Buffy’s (A)Theology: Religion: “Freaky” or just “A Bunch of Men Who Died”Greg EricksonPDF · 180 kBRead →EnglishThe Evolution of Joss Whedon’s Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the SoulScott McLarenPDF · 181 kBRead →EnglishThe Politics and Ethics of Researching the BuffyverseAnthony BradneyPDF · 130 kBRead →EnglishWhy Can’t We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire SlayerRichard Greene and Wayne YuenPDF · 104 kBRead →English“The Outsiders' Society”: Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire SlayerZoë-Jane PlaydonPDF · 163 kBRead →
TopicCharacters in focus
English"Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer": Spike and the Underground ManClaire FosseyPDF · 131 kBRead →EnglishAeneas the Vampire Slayer, A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills BenC. W. MarshallPDF · 97 kBRead →EnglishShes Not All Grown Yet, Willow as HybridHero in BuffyJes BattisPDF · 133 kBRead →EnglishWalking the Fine Line Between Angel and AngelusStacey AbbottPDF · 115 kBRead →EnglishWarrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and BeowulfDavid FrittsPDF · 138 kBRead →EnglishWhy Drusilla’s More Interesting than BuffyPDF · 209 kBRead →EnglishWillow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire SlayerCynthea MassonPDF · 181 kBRead →
TopicPsychology, family & growing up
English"There Will Never Be a ‘Very Special’ Buffy”: Buffy and the Monsters of Teen LifeRhonda V. WilcoxPDF · 126 kBRead →English"When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?" Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike’s RelationshipMargaret BatesPDF · 163 kBRead →EnglishBuffy and the Domestic Church, Revisioning Family and the Common GoodReid B. LocklinPDF · 126 kBRead →EnglishGeneration Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert GilesCynthia BowersPDF · 112 kBRead →English“I run to Death”: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire SlayerChristine JarvisPDF · 124 kBRead →
TopicVampires, monsters & myths
EnglishA Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire SlayerStacey AbbottPDF · 117 kBRead →EnglishBuffy in the Terrible HouseHolly G. BarbacciaPDF · 104 kBRead →EnglishGoing Through the Motions: Robots in Buffy the Vampire SlayerBronwen CalvertPDF · 112 kBRead →EnglishLos Alamos is the HellmouthJeffrey BussoliniPDF · 137 kBRead →EnglishRegeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New FrontierRod RomesburgPDF · 142 kBRead →EnglishThe Summers’ House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLorna JowettPDF · 144 kBRead →EnglishUndead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire SlayerWilliam WandlessPDF · 116 kBRead →EnglishVampire is Being Beaten, A - De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and AngelJenny AlexanderPDF · 128 kBRead →EnglishVampires and Representations of ‘Blackness’ and ‘Jewishness’ in Buffy/AngelNaomi Alderman, Annette Seidel-ArpacıPDF · 122 kBRead →
TopicLanguage, storytelling & staging
English"Not Just Another Buffy Paper”: Towards an Aesthetics of TelevisionSue TurnbullPDF · 633 kBRead →English"Where's the fun?": The Comic Apocalypse in "The Wish"David KociembaPDF · 130 kBRead →EnglishA Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)Jeffrey MiddentsPDF · 123 kBRead →EnglishAnd in Some Language Thats English, Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer GenerationJesse Saba KirchnerPDF · 148 kBRead →EnglishApocalyptic Apocalypses, THe Narrative Eschatology of BuffyDavid LaveryPDF · 130 kBRead →EnglishBrainwashing the Working Class, Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr Occult to BuffyMassimo IntrovignePDF · 121 kBRead →EnglishBreakaway pop hit or book numer, Once More with Feeling and GenreRichard S. AlbrightPDF · 153 kBRead →EnglishEnlightenment Rhetoric in Buffy: The Ideological Implications of Worldviews in the BuffyverseWendy OlsonPDF · 129 kBRead →EnglishExtending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts in "Hush"Alice Jenkins and Susan StuartPDF · 110 kBRead →EnglishHow Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message BoardsMark PetersPDF · 186 kBRead →EnglishJames Joyce, BUffy and the Aesthetics of MinutiaeErin HollisPDF · 124 kBRead →EnglishLessons for Season Seven on BuffyElizabeth RamboPDF · 280 kBRead →EnglishReading the Opening Title Sequences of BuffyDavid KociembaPDF · 224 kBRead →EnglishReal Vampires Don’t Wear Shorts: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLeigh ClemonsPDF · 134 kBRead →EnglishScreaming to be Heard: Community and Communication in "Hush"Patrick ShadePDF · 142 kBRead →EnglishSilence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading of "Hush"Kelly KromerPDF · 177 kBRead →EnglishSinging Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy and AngelJanet K. HalfyardPDF · 159 kBRead →EnglishThe Color of DarkCamille Bacon-SmithPDF · 113 kBRead →EnglishThe Comic Anti-hero in Buffy or Silly Villain, Spike is for KicksMichele BoyettePDF · 103 kBRead →EnglishThe Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of FanfictionKatrina BlasingamePDF · 172 kBRead →EnglishWhen, Where, and How Much is Buffy a Soap Opera?Giada Da RosPDF · 287 kBRead →English“I am the law” “I am the magics”: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow in BuffyCaroline RuddellPDF · 163 kBRead →
TopicPolitics, law & society
English"It's About Power": Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for SelfJulie Sloan BrannonPDF · 124 kBRead →English"Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me": Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the BuffyverseLewis CallPDF · 253 kBRead →EnglishBuffy the Scooby Gang and Monstrous AuthorityDaniel A. Clark & P. Andrew MillerPDF · 106 kBRead →EnglishBuffy the Vampire Disciplinarian, Institutional Excess and the New Economy of PowerMartin Buinicki and Anthony EnnsPDF · 117 kBRead →EnglishBy Whose AuthorityBruce McClellandPDF · 105 kBRead →EnglishDissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives, and Rationality in BuffyRob Breton and Lindsey McMasterPDF · 101 kBRead →EnglishDressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVSChristine Jarvis and Don AdamsPDF · 126 kBRead →EnglishPerceived Values and Social Support in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLawrence B. Rosenfeld and Scarlet L. WynnsPDF · 95 kBRead →EnglishRobert A. Davis Buffy and the Pedagogy of FearPDF · 102 kBRead →EnglishThe Caucasian Persuasion of BuffyEwan KirklandPDF · 192 kBRead →EnglishYou're on my campus, buddy!: Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale HighMichele PaulePDF · 146 kBRead →English“A Very Strong Urge to Hit You”: Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating in BuffyGeorge A. Dunn, Brian McDonaldPDF · 156 kBRead →
TopicTelevision, fans & media
English"Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined”: The Buffyverse as an Information SystemAimee FifarekPDF · 125 kBRead →EnglishBram Stockers Buffy, Traditional Gothic and Contemporary CultureMichelle CallanderPDF · 142 kBRead →EnglishFrom the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy’s Transition from Film to TelevisionGabrielle MossPDF · 101 kBRead →EnglishRemediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of BuffyTanya KrzywinskaPDF · 240 kBRead →EnglishSynergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and Unofficial Buffy Communities of InterestWendy A. F. G. StengelPDF · 110 kBRead →EnglishT. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's "Restless"Rhonda V. WilcoxPDF · 102 kBRead →EnglishTeen Witches, Wiccans, and “Wanna-Blessed-Be’s”: Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire SlayerJ. Lawton WinsladePDF · 201 kBRead →EnglishWhedon Studies AssociationPDF · 102 kBRead →English“I Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic CultDavid LaveryPDF · 132 kBRead →English“Over-identify much?”: Passion, "Passion," and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in BuffyDavid KociembaPDF · 193 kBRead →
TopicFirefly & Serenity
EnglishA New Frontier, Whedon Studies and Firefly, SerenityTanya R. Cochran and Rhonda V. WilcoxPDF · 85 kBRead →EnglishCaptain Tightpants: Firefly and the Science Fiction CanonJes BattisPDF · 152 kBRead →EnglishCoyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-ShamanMark GelineauPDF · 129 kBRead →EnglishOrientalism in Firefly and SerenityRebecca M. BrownPDF · 150 kBRead →EnglishRole Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the SerenityverseLinda Jean JencsonPDF · 188 kBRead →English“We don’t say ‘Indian’”: On the Paradoxical Construction of the ReaversAgnes B. CurryPDF · 178 kBRead →