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Slayer Studies

Theses and papers from around the world about Buffy, Angel and the Whedonverse – as PDFs, sorted by topic.

108studies
9topics

TopicWomen, gender & sexuality

25 Studies

  1. "Every Night I Save You": Buffy, Spike, Sex and RedemptionRhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon College)English116 kB
  2. "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait'": Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire SlayerCarolyn CoccaEnglish126 kB
  3. "It’s Bloody Brilliant!" The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of BuffyArwen SpicerEnglish176 kB
  4. "Killing us Softly"? A Feminist Search for the "Real" BuffySherryl VintEnglish773 kB
  5. "Love’s Bitch but Man Enough to Admit It": Spike’s Hybridized GenderArwen SpicerEnglish115 kB
  6. "Queen C" Goes to Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's HouseElizabeth RamboEnglish115 kB
  7. Aint Love Grand, Spike and Courtly LoveVictoria SpahEnglish126 kB
  8. Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in BtVSBrett Rogers and Walter ScheidelEnglish185 kB
  9. Fan Readings of Sex and Violence on BuffyDawn HeineckenEnglish137 kB
  10. Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New Approaches to Media FandomJudith TabronEnglish185 kB
  11. Kiss the Librarian, But Close the Hellmouth: “It’s Like a Whole Big Sucking Thing”Kevin McNeilly, Sue Fisher, Christina SylkaEnglish116 kB
  12. Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender and Identity in Buffy and AngelJanet K. HalfyardEnglish106 kB
  13. Passion, pain and ‘bad kissing decisions’: learning about intimate relationships from Buffy Season SixAngie BurnsEnglish126 kB
  14. Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of CampCynthea Masson and Marni StanleyEnglish173 kB
  15. Slaying the PatriarchyHolly ChandlerEnglish150 kB
  16. Solving Problems with Sharp Objects, Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in BuffyGwyn SymondsEnglish164 kB
  17. Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy — A Quantitative AnalysisPaul D. ShapiroEnglish143 kB
  18. Staking Her Claim, Buffy as Transgressive Woman WarriorFrances EarlyEnglish137 kB
  19. Vampires and School Girls: High School Highjinks on the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire SlayerGina WiskerEnglish177 kB
  20. Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy Wound Up Dating the EnemyHilary M. LeonEnglish232 kB
  21. Xander, Patriarchy, and the Presentation of Realistic Gender Politics in BtVSMarc CamronEnglish135 kB
  22. You Hod Your Gun Like A Sissy GirlStevie SimkinEnglish134 kB
  23. “I Made a Promise to a Lady”: Law and Love in BtVSAnthony BradneyEnglish159 kB
  24. “I Think I’m Kinda Gay”: Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire SlayerEm McAvanEnglish125 kB
  25. “When You Kiss Me, I want to Die”: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire SlayerAnanya MukherjeaEnglish181 kB

TopicPhilosophy, ethics & religion

12 Studies

  1. "A Religion in Narrative": Joss Whedon and Television CreativityDavid LaveryEnglish118 kB
  2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Business Ethics ClassroomHoward HarrisEnglish123 kB
  3. Buffy vs the BBC, Moral Questions and How to Avoid ThemVivien BurrEnglish85 kB
  4. Is Joss Becoming a Thomist?Agnes CurryEnglish135 kB
  5. Moral Complexity in the BuffyverseJ. Robert LoftisEnglish161 kB
  6. On the Philosophical Consistency of Season 7James SouthEnglish150 kB
  7. Performance of PSike and the Ambiguity of Evil in SunnydaleGwyn SymondsEnglish183 kB
  8. Revisiting Buffy’s (A)Theology: Religion: “Freaky” or just “A Bunch of Men Who Died”Greg EricksonEnglish180 kB
  9. The Evolution of Joss Whedon’s Vampire Mythology and the Ontology of the SoulScott McLarenEnglish181 kB
  10. The Politics and Ethics of Researching the BuffyverseAnthony BradneyEnglish130 kB
  11. Why Can’t We Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire SlayerRichard Greene and Wayne YuenEnglish104 kB
  12. “The Outsiders' Society”: Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire SlayerZoë-Jane PlaydonEnglish163 kB

TopicCharacters in focus

7 Studies

  1. "Never Hurt the Feelings of a Brutal Killer": Spike and the Underground ManClaire FosseyEnglish131 kB
  2. Aeneas the Vampire Slayer, A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills BenC. W. MarshallEnglish97 kB
  3. Shes Not All Grown Yet, Willow as HybridHero in BuffyJes BattisEnglish133 kB
  4. Walking the Fine Line Between Angel and AngelusStacey AbbottEnglish115 kB
  5. Warrior Heroes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and BeowulfDavid FrittsEnglish138 kB
  6. Why Drusilla’s More Interesting than BuffyEnglish209 kB
  7. Willow, Questions, and Affective Response in Buffy the Vampire SlayerCynthea MassonEnglish181 kB

TopicPsychology, family & growing up

5 Studies

  1. "There Will Never Be a ‘Very Special’ Buffy”: Buffy and the Monsters of Teen LifeRhonda V. WilcoxEnglish126 kB
  2. "When Did Your Sister Get Unbelievably Scary?" Outsider Status and Dawn and Spike’s RelationshipMargaret BatesEnglish163 kB
  3. Buffy and the Domestic Church, Revisioning Family and the Common GoodReid B. LocklinEnglish126 kB
  4. Generation Lapse: The Problematic Parenting of Joyce Summers and Rupert GilesCynthia BowersEnglish112 kB
  5. “I run to Death”: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire SlayerChristine JarvisEnglish124 kB

TopicVampires, monsters & myths

9 Studies

  1. A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire SlayerStacey AbbottEnglish117 kB
  2. Buffy in the Terrible HouseHolly G. BarbacciaEnglish104 kB
  3. Going Through the Motions: Robots in Buffy the Vampire SlayerBronwen CalvertEnglish112 kB
  4. Los Alamos is the HellmouthJeffrey BussoliniEnglish137 kB
  5. Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New FrontierRod RomesburgEnglish142 kB
  6. The Summers’ House as Domestic Space in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLorna JowettEnglish144 kB
  7. Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire SlayerWilliam WandlessEnglish116 kB
  8. Vampire is Being Beaten, A - De Sade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and AngelJenny AlexanderEnglish128 kB
  9. Vampires and Representations of ‘Blackness’ and ‘Jewishness’ in Buffy/AngelNaomi Alderman, Annette Seidel-ArpacıEnglish122 kB

TopicLanguage, storytelling & staging

22 Studies

  1. "Not Just Another Buffy Paper”: Towards an Aesthetics of TelevisionSue TurnbullEnglish633 kB
  2. "Where's the fun?": The Comic Apocalypse in "The Wish"David KociembaEnglish130 kB
  3. A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)Jeffrey MiddentsEnglish123 kB
  4. And in Some Language Thats English, Slayer Slang and Artificial Computer GenerationJesse Saba KirchnerEnglish148 kB
  5. Apocalyptic Apocalypses, THe Narrative Eschatology of BuffyDavid LaveryEnglish130 kB
  6. Brainwashing the Working Class, Vampire Comics and Criticism from Dr Occult to BuffyMassimo IntrovigneEnglish121 kB
  7. Breakaway pop hit or book numer, Once More with Feeling and GenreRichard S. AlbrightEnglish153 kB
  8. Enlightenment Rhetoric in Buffy: The Ideological Implications of Worldviews in the BuffyverseWendy OlsonEnglish129 kB
  9. Extending Your Mind: Non-Standard Perlocutionary Acts in "Hush"Alice Jenkins and Susan StuartEnglish110 kB
  10. How Two Items of Slayer Slang Survive on the Television Without Pity Message BoardsMark PetersEnglish186 kB
  11. James Joyce, BUffy and the Aesthetics of MinutiaeErin HollisEnglish124 kB
  12. Lessons for Season Seven on BuffyElizabeth RamboEnglish280 kB
  13. Reading the Opening Title Sequences of BuffyDavid KociembaEnglish224 kB
  14. Real Vampires Don’t Wear Shorts: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLeigh ClemonsEnglish134 kB
  15. Screaming to be Heard: Community and Communication in "Hush"Patrick ShadeEnglish142 kB
  16. Silence as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Reading of "Hush"Kelly KromerEnglish177 kB
  17. Singing Their Hearts Out: The Problem of Performance in Buffy and AngelJanet K. HalfyardEnglish159 kB
  18. The Color of DarkCamille Bacon-SmithEnglish113 kB
  19. The Comic Anti-hero in Buffy or Silly Villain, Spike is for KicksMichele BoyetteEnglish103 kB
  20. The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of FanfictionKatrina BlasingameEnglish172 kB
  21. When, Where, and How Much is Buffy a Soap Opera?Giada Da RosEnglish287 kB
  22. “I am the law” “I am the magics”: Speech, Power and the Split Identity of Willow in BuffyCaroline RuddellEnglish163 kB

TopicPolitics, law & society

12 Studies

  1. "It's About Power": Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for SelfJulie Sloan BrannonEnglish124 kB
  2. "Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me": Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the BuffyverseLewis CallEnglish253 kB
  3. Buffy the Scooby Gang and Monstrous AuthorityDaniel A. Clark & P. Andrew MillerEnglish106 kB
  4. Buffy the Vampire Disciplinarian, Institutional Excess and the New Economy of PowerMartin Buinicki and Anthony EnnsEnglish117 kB
  5. By Whose AuthorityBruce McClellandEnglish105 kB
  6. Dissing the Age of Moo: Initiatives, Alternatives, and Rationality in BuffyRob Breton and Lindsey McMasterEnglish101 kB
  7. Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Leadership in BtVSChristine Jarvis and Don AdamsEnglish126 kB
  8. Perceived Values and Social Support in Buffy the Vampire SlayerLawrence B. Rosenfeld and Scarlet L. WynnsEnglish95 kB
  9. Robert A. Davis Buffy and the Pedagogy of FearEnglish102 kB
  10. The Caucasian Persuasion of BuffyEwan KirklandEnglish192 kB
  11. You're on my campus, buddy!: Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale HighMichele PauleEnglish146 kB
  12. “A Very Strong Urge to Hit You”: Mimetic Violence and Scapegoating in BuffyGeorge A. Dunn, Brian McDonaldEnglish156 kB

TopicTelevision, fans & media

10 Studies

  1. "Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined”: The Buffyverse as an Information SystemAimee FifarekEnglish125 kB
  2. Bram Stockers Buffy, Traditional Gothic and Contemporary CultureMichelle CallanderEnglish142 kB
  3. From the Valley to the Hellmouth: Buffy’s Transition from Film to TelevisionGabrielle MossEnglish101 kB
  4. Remediation, Occulted Meta-game-Physics and the Dynamics of Agency in the Videogame Version of BuffyTanya KrzywinskaEnglish240 kB
  5. Synergy and Smut: The Brand in Official and Unofficial Buffy Communities of InterestWendy A. F. G. StengelEnglish110 kB
  6. T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's "Restless"Rhonda V. WilcoxEnglish102 kB
  7. Teen Witches, Wiccans, and “Wanna-Blessed-Be’s”: Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire SlayerJ. Lawton WinsladeEnglish201 kB
  8. Whedon Studies AssociationEnglish102 kB
  9. “I Wrote My Thesis on You": Buffy Studies as an Academic CultDavid LaveryEnglish132 kB
  10. “Over-identify much?”: Passion, "Passion," and the Author-Audience Feedback Loop in BuffyDavid KociembaEnglish193 kB

TopicFirefly & Serenity

6 Studies

  1. A New Frontier, Whedon Studies and Firefly, SerenityTanya R. Cochran and Rhonda V. WilcoxEnglish85 kB
  2. Captain Tightpants: Firefly and the Science Fiction CanonJes BattisEnglish152 kB
  3. Coyote in the Black: The Evolution of Malcolm Reynolds the Trickster-ShamanMark GelineauEnglish129 kB
  4. Orientalism in Firefly and SerenityRebecca M. BrownEnglish150 kB
  5. Role Modeling Political-Economic Conditions and Political Action in the SerenityverseLinda Jean JencsonEnglish188 kB
  6. “We don’t say ‘Indian’”: On the Paradoxical Construction of the ReaversAgnes B. CurryEnglish178 kB