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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Whedon"”.
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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
… 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 (e.g., Patricia …
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The Expanded 'Verse: Serialized Transmediality in Firefly/Serenity
… web videos, and the feature film Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) as narrative continuations within a single metatext that eschews the centrality of any one text over the others in favour of seriality.
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"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em>
<p>Both Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em> present settings that are just as much influenced by the environments in which they occur as they are by the characters who act within those environments. For J.R.R. Tolkien, it was his lived experience of …