Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy Meets the Academy

Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts

Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2009

Description

This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same serious attention paid to classic philosophy and other long-established fields. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism(s), redemption, patriarchy, identity and education.

About the Author

Kevin K. Durand is an associate professor of philosophy at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He has published widely in several areas of philosophy, religion, ethics, and popular culture studies.