Reading Joss Whedon

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xi Contents by Topic Narrative and Writing From Beneath You, It Foreshadows Why Buffy’s First Season Matters 덇 22 Hero’s Journey, Heroine’s Return? Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus Myth 덇 40 “Can I Spend the Night / Alone?” Segments and Connections in “Conversations with Dead People” 덇 70 “Hey, Respect the Narrative Flow Much?” Problematic Storytelling in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 덇 84 What the Hell? Angel’s “The Girl in Question” 덇 134 “Wheel Never Stops Turning” Space and Time in Firefly and Serenity 덇 169 Joining the Evil League of Evil The Rhetoric of Posthuman Negotiation in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog 덇 237 Buffy’s Season 8, Image and Text Superhero Self-Fashioning 덇 250 Joss Whedon Throws His Mighty Shield Marvel’s The Avengers as War Movie 덇 280 Stuffing a Rabbit in It Character, Narrative, and Time in the Whedonverses 덇 297 Visuals and Directing “Can I Spend the Night / Alone?” Segments and Connections in “Conversations with Dead People” 덇 70 “Enough of the Action, Let’s Get Back to Dancing” Joss Whedon Directs Angel 덇 119 Joining the Evil League of Evil The Rhetoric of Posthuman Negotiation in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog 덇 237 Buffy’s Season 8, Image and Text Superhero Self-Fashioning 덇 250 Character “It’s Like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us” Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse 덇 53 Stuffing a Rabbit in It Character, Narrative, and Time in the Whedonverses 덇 297 xii ✴ Contents by Topic Music Hero’s Journey, Heroine’s Return? Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus Myth 덇 40 “Can I Spend the Night / Alone?” Segments and Connections in “Conversations with Dead People” 덇 70 Joining the Evil League of Evil The Rhetoric of Posthuman Negotiation in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog 덇 237 Myth and Intertext Hero’s Journey, Heroine’s Return? Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus Myth 덇 40 “It’s Like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us” Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse 덇 53 What the Hell? Angel’s “The Girl in Question” 덇 134 Reflections in the Pool Echo, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze in Dollhouse 덇 205 Watchers in the Woods Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods 덇 268 Symbolism “It’s Like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us” Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse 덇 53 “Can I Spend the Night / Alone?” Segments and Connections in “Conversations with Dead People” 덇 70 Metaphoric Unity and Ending Sending and Receiving Firefly’s Last “Message” 덇 185 Reflections in the Pool Echo, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze in Dollhouse 덇 205 “There Is No Me; I’m Just a Container” Law and the Loss of Personhood in Dollhouse 덇 221 Themes — G E N D E R Hero’s Journey, Heroine’s Return? Buffy, Eurydice, and the Orpheus Myth 덇 40 “It’s Like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us” Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse 덇 53 Reflections in the Pool Echo, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze in Dollhouse 덇 205 “There Is No Me; I’m Just a Container” Law and the Loss of Personhood in Dollhouse 덇 221 “Hot Chicks with Superpowers” The Contested Feminism of Joss Whedon 덇 356 Contents by Topic ✴ xiii — H U M A N I D E N T I T Y “It’s Like Some Primal, Some Animal Force . . . That Used to Be Us” Animality, Humanity, and Moral Careers in the Buffyverse 덇 53 Reflections in the Pool Echo, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze in Dollhouse 덇 205 “There Is No Me; I’m Just a Container” Law and the Loss of Personhood in Dollhouse 덇 221 Joining the Evil League of Evil The Rhetoric of Posthuman Negotiation in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog 덇 237 Adventures in the Moral Imagination Memory and Identity in Whedon’s Narrative Ethics 덇 312 Technology and Magic Joss Whedon’s Explorations of the Mind 덇 325 From Old Heresies to Future Paradigms Joss Whedon on Body and Soul 덇 341 — C O M M U N I T Y A N D C O L L A B O R A T I O N “Can I Spend the Night / Alone?” Segments and Connections in “Conversations with Dead People” 덇 70 All Those Apocalypses Disaster Studies and Community in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel 덇 99 Metaphoric Unity and Ending Sending and Receiving Firefly’s Last “Message” 덇 185 Joss Whedon Throws His Mighty Shield Marvel’s...