Joss Whedon and race : critical essays /

Joss Whedon and race : critical essays /

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Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Description:vii, 329 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Whedon, Joss, -- 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Whedon, Joss, -- 1964-
Racism in mass media.
Racism in mass media.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10927723
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Other authors / contributors:Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen, editor.
Woodall, Lowery A., III, editor.
ISBN:9780786470105
0786470100
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Joss Whedon is known for exploring philosophical questions through socially progressive narratives in his films, television shows and comics. Whedon's work critiques racial stereotypes, sometimes repudiating them, sometimes reinvesting in them. This collection of new essays explores his representations of racial power dynamics between individuals and institutions and how the Whedonverse constructs race, ethnicity and nationality relationships"--
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Individual, the Institutional and the Unintentional: Exploring the Whedonverses Through Critical Race Theory
  • Part I. The Caucasian Persuasion Here in the 'Dale: Race and Ethnicity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • "The black chick always gets it first": Black Slayers in Sunnydale
  • "I have no speech, no name": The Denial of Female Agency Through Speech in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • A Dodgy English Accent: The Rituals of a Contested Space of Englishness in "Helpless"
  • She's White and They Are History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Racialization of the Past and Present
  • "Let it simmer": Tonal Shifts in "Pangs"
  • Part II. From huffy to Angel: Racial Representation Across Sunnydale and L.A.
  • Representations of the Roma in Buffy and Angel
  • An Inevitable Tragedy: The Troubled Life of Charles Gunn as an Allegory for General Strain Theory
  • Part III. Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse: Race and Ethnicity at the Margins of the 'Verses
  • Race, Space and the (De)Construction of Neocolonial 9 Difference in Firefly/Serenity
  • Mexicans in Space? Joss Whedon's Firefly, Reavers and the Man They Call Jayne
  • Zoe Washburne: Navigating the 'Verse as a Military Woman of Color
  • Programming Slavery: Race, Technology and the Quest for Freedom in Dollhouse
  • "Memory itself guarantees nothing': Dollhouse, Witnessing and "the jews"
  • Part IV. It's a Play on Perspective: Long Views and Deep Focus on Race in the Whedonverses
  • On Soldiers and Sages: Problematizing the Roles of Black Men in the Whedonverses
  • The Godmothers of Them All: Female-Centered Blaxploitation Films and the Heroines of Joss Whedon
  • Someone's Asian in Dr. Horrible: Humor, Reflexivity and the Absolution of Whiteness
  • About the Contributors
  • Combined Bibliography
  • Index
Purchased by the Francis H. Dowley Endowed Library Fund bookplate

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