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Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


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Buffythe Vampire Slayer
  • An Introduction to the Buffyverse

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Buffythe Vampire Slayer
  • Horror film conventions
  • Misogynist?
  • Violence against women
  • Male gaze
  • Objectification of women
  • True of TV too? 2005 TV Season called the die,
    women, die season

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Buffythe Vampire Slayer
  • Joss Whedon (1964-)
  • Wanted to create a film, TV series that
    deliberately reversed horror film conventions
  • Wanted show to play with question, What happens
    when a pretty girl walks down a dark alley?
  • Created film Buffy the Vampire Slayer first,
    wasnt happy with it, rewrote it for TV
  • First season 12 episodes seven seasons in
    total.

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Buffythe Vampire Slayer
  • Buffy deliberately structured to reverse horror
    conventions.
  • Feminist
  • Women hold power (including power to kill)
  • Female gaze
  • Objectification absent, except for humour -
    Xander as object of predatory female gaze

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Buffythe Vampire Slayer
  • Buffy as post-feminist?
  • Individualist, but also reliant of friends,
    family
  • Powerful, but questions source, purpose of powers
  • Leader, but takes direction from watcher (on her
    own terms)
  • Strong, powerful, feared (by evil beings), but
    pretty, sexy, fashionable, concerned with peer
    opinions
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