Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BFI TV Classics)

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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (BFI TV Classics S.)
Author Anne Billson
Subject(s) Buffyverse
Genre(s) academic publication, Media Study
Publisher British Film Institute
Publication date December 5, 2005
Pages 154
Size and weight 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches / 9.76 ounces
ISBN ISBN 1-84457-089-4

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BFI TV Classics S.) is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.

Anne Billson's book gives an extended overview of the history of Buffy. She details the show's antecedents and influences and explores how, in a broadcasting environment necessary for a long-running series, the show was able to push the envelope and grow into a fully realized mythology in which the supernatural is made real through emotional honesty.

[edit] Contents

  1. "Before Buffy"
  2. "The Chosen One"
  3. "Welcome to the Hellmouth"
  4. "Love and Other Catastrophes"
  5. "The Dark Side"
  6. "Higher Learning"
  7. "Death and the Maiden"
  8. "Revenge of the Nerds"
  9. "Sharing the Power"
  10. "After Buffy"


Buffyverse academic books


Buffyverse academic books in alphabetical order.

The Aesthetics of Culture in BtVS | Bite Me | Blood Relations | BtVS and Philosophy | Buffy (BFI) | Fighting the Forces | Five Seasons of Angel | Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy | Reading Angel | Reading the Vampire Slayer | Seven Seasons of Buffy | Sex and the Slayer | Slayer Slang | Televised Morality | What Would Buffy Do? | Why Buffy Matters