Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer provided one of the critical moments in the evolution of television: spectacularly inventive, brilliantly written, complexly plotted, exquisitely filled with metaphor and meaning. It is a show whose many subtexts—feminism and gender roles; issues of morality, faith and belief; the ethics of violence; the nature of society and the family—made it one of the richest social narratives ever to appear on-screen. We’ll explore those subtexts, looking at the way in which so seemingly innocuous a genre as vampire fiction can be refashioned to make it a cogent and powerful discourse on modern society and its essential dilemmas.

Note: familiarity with the show before class is helpful but not necessary.

Winter 2008

Time/Dates: W, 6:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. 1/23/2008 - 2/20/2008

Location: Room 109, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla

Fee: $145

Instructor: Nancy Holder

Textbooks: Suggested Books

Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? by Rhonda V Wilcox ISBN: 0742516814

You may purchase textbooks via the UCSD Bookstore.

Click on the link for more :

http://www.extension.ucsd.edu/studyarea/index.cfm?vCourse=GINT-81291