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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"”.
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The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The social construction of disability posits that media play an important role in the construction of disability. Few studies have systematically examined the role of disability in film or television. Engaging in a multiple perspective analysis, this dissertation examined the role of disability in …
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Slaying Literature: Metaphor and Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is a storyteller who created Buffy the Vampires Slayer, a television series about a young girl who is chosen to fight the supernatural evil. She makes friends who help her when she needs it, and enemies who are frequently demonic and generally evil. Whedon uses many metaphors in the …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
<p>Despite the extensive collection of works related to both Joss Whedon and <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>, relatively little critical attention has so far dealt with the subject of metafiction. This study aims to make use of narratological analyses as well as drawing upon relevant theorists …
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Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media
… texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because they not only reflect the influence of the feminist movement, they work on feminism's …
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Targeting families and teens: Television violence on the WB
The author investigates the amount of violence contained within WB primetime programs in order to determine The WB's number of violent acts per program and per program hour as well as determine some of the possible effects of The WB's violence. The author sampled one week of WB primetime …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
<p>This thesis engages the figure of the Chosen One in fantasy literature. The Chosen One arises as a key figure in fantasy and exists today in the Anglo-American literary imagination as a hero above other heroes. This figure embodies Anglo-American understandings of the Hero's Journey and savior …
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Realities of Change: The changing nature of television in the past twenty years
This thesis argues that in order to understand the changes that have occurred in the television industry and television spectatorship since the mid-1990s, it is important to look at the transitions which have occurred in three key areas: ‘textual production’, ‘reception and response’, and …
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La traduzione come censura. Per uno studio della censura in ambito di traduzione audiovisiva in riferimento al gayspeak e all’omosessualità
… Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Xena, Gilmore Girls, Buffy - The Vampire Slayer, The Simpsosn e Will&Grace - The Revival) soprattutto in relazione a determinati riferimenti culturali come il linguaggio denominato gayspeak – il linguaggio fittizio utilizzato da gay e lesbiche nel contesto audiovisivo – …
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“Is this Bizarro World?” : The adaptation of characterisation and intertextuality in German audiovisual translation
This thesis contributes to the scholarly understanding of intertextuality, characterisation and translation theory; building upon earlier analyses of audiovisual translation of genre television (e.g. Bosseaux 2015, Knox and Adamou 2011), my thesis undertakes analyses of interactions between …
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The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological
<p>“The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological” investigates contemporary American personal essays in an environmental mode in order to illuminate the boundaries between “self” and “planet.” It does so with an eye toward ecological devastation—namely, the violent effects of global …
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In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving
When a significant other dies, our lives can be shattered and our worlds upended. We may find that we no longer know how to make sense of our experiences or how to engage in our practical activities. Nothing can be as it was before because the world as we once knew it has ended, and we are no …