Reading the Vampire Slayer

Reading the Vampire Slayer
Editor	Roz Kaveney
Author	Various
Subject	Buffyverse
Genre	academic publication, Media Study
Publisher	Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Publication date	March 18, 2004 (second updated edition)
Pages	288
ISBN	1-86064-984-X
OCLC	54899596

Reading the Vampire Slayer is a 2004 academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.

Book description and contents

Covers both Buffy (up to its final season) and Angel (up to Season 4). The book gives in depth analysis highlighting show titles, quotes, key comments that foreshadow something else. The book progresses season by season discussing character growth, and many hidden metaphors.

These are the contents for the first edition (published 2001):

Chapter	Title	Author
01	"She Saved the World. A Lot: An Introduction to the Themes and Structure of Buffy and Angel"	Roz Kaveney
02	"Entropy as Demon: Buffy in Southern California"	Boyd Tonkin
03	"Vampire Dialectics: Knowledge, Institutions and Labour"	Brian Wall & Michael Zryd
04	"Laugh, Spawn of Hell, Laugh"	Steve Wilson
05	"'It Wasn't Our World Anymore--They Made It Theirs': Reading Space and Place"	Karen Sayer
06	"'What You Are, What's to Come': Feminism, citizenship, and the divine"	Zoe-Jane Playden
07	"'Just a Girl': Buffy as Icon"	Anne Millard Daugherty
08	"'Concentrate on the kicking movie': "Buffy" and East Asian Cinema"	Dave West
09	"Staking a Claim: The Series and Its Slash Fan-Fiction"	Esther Saxey
10	"'They always mistake me for the character I play!': Transformation, identity and role-playing in the Buffyverse (and a defence of fine acting)"	Ian Shuttleworth

Critical reception

The book was reviewed by Pyramid,^[1] Nicholas Birns in Science Fiction Studies,^[2] Fiona Kelleghan in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts,^[3] Deborah Netburn in The New York Observer,^[4] David V. Barrett in The Independent,^[5] and David Beard in Popular Communication.^[6]

References

^ "Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel".
^ Birns, Nicholas (2003). "Pop Demonic: Review of Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel". Science Fiction Studies. 30 (2): 313–315. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via JSTOR.
^ Kelleghan, Fiona (2004). "Review of Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 15 (1 (57)): 73–79. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via JSTOR.
^ Netburn, Deborah (March 25, 2002). "Media Studies Does Buffy, And Buffy, as Always, Prevails". The New York Observer. p. 26. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via ProQuest.
^ Barrett, David V. (January 3, 2002). "Reading the Vampire Slayer: an unofficial critical companion to Buffy and Angel edited by Roz Kaveney". The Independent. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
^ Beard, David (2003). "Book Review of 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel,' edited by Roz Kaveney". Popular Communication. 1 (3): 189–191. doi:10.1207/S15405710PC0103_5.

External links

[1] "Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel".

[2] Birns, Nicholas (2003). "Pop Demonic: Review of Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel". Science Fiction Studies. 30 (2): 313–315. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via JSTOR.

[3] Kelleghan, Fiona (2004). "Review of Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 15 (1 (57)): 73–79. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via JSTOR.

[4] Netburn, Deborah (March 25, 2002). "Media Studies Does Buffy, And Buffy, as Always, Prevails". The New York Observer. p. 26. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via ProQuest.

[5] Barrett, David V. (January 3, 2002). "Reading the Vampire Slayer: an unofficial critical companion to Buffy and Angel edited by Roz Kaveney". The Independent. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

[6] Beard, David (2003). "Book Review of 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel,' edited by Roz Kaveney". Popular Communication. 1 (3): 189–191. doi:10.1207/S15405710PC0103_5.

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