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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: The View from the Grave: Buffy as Gothic Feminist

Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Guest post written by Jennifer M. Santos. “It’s a relief to hear papers that don’t go on about feminism.” Such was Patricia Pender’s report on the mood of attendees at the second Slayage Conference in 2006, just three years after Buffy ended (5). Pender punctuated … Continue reading “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: The View from the Grave: Buffy as Gothic Feminist”

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: A Love Letter to Buffy: How the Vampire Slayer Turned This Girl into a Feminist

Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar); Buffy the Vampire Slayer   Guest post written by Talia Liben Yarmush originally published at The Accidental Typist. Cross-posted with permission. Before Bella, before Sookie, there was Buffy. She fought her way on to the silver screen and slayed her way through seven seasons on prime-time. I was in seventh … Continue reading “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: A Love Letter to Buffy: How the Vampire Slayer Turned This Girl into a Feminist”

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: Buffyverse Season 1 Trailer

Today kicks off Buffy Week here at Bitch Flicks!  Impacting pop culture and academia (with college courses and an online academic journal dedicated to its analysis), Buffy the Vampire Slayer paved the way for other strong female protagonists and female-fronted TV series. Exploring female friendship, teen angst, lesbian sexuality and feminist issues, creator Joss Whedon … Continue reading “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Week: Buffyverse Season 1 Trailer”

Call for Writers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme Week

That’s right. August is Buffy Theme Week OMFG!!!! This topic is so freakin’ wide open I don’t even know what to say.  Buffy (the TV show specifically) has given rise to such amazingness as Buffy Studies courses in college, academic and pop culture conferences, and the online academic journal: Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon … Continue reading “Call for Writers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme Week”

Women in Science Fiction Week: ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Willow Rosenberg: Geek, Interrupted

Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hanigan) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Written by Lady T.  Joss Whedon is known for creating and writing about strong female characters in his science fiction shows. One of the most popular and complex of these characters is Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Willow speaks to many people and quite … Continue reading “Women in Science Fiction Week: ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Willow Rosenberg: Geek, Interrupted”

Not Exactly the New ‘Buffy’: The Many Failings of ‘Supernatural’

The simplistic machismo of ‘Supernatural’ is particularly frustrating because there is so much potential for the show to challenge the norms of conventional masculinity – and yet it just doesn’t.

The Imaginary World of ‘Mona The Vampire’

The series chronicled the adventures of Mona Parker, a young girl who enjoys dressing up like a vampire and sees saving her town from monsters as her mission in life. The stories are Buffy-lite: a giant bug substitute teacher, a robot babysitter, doppelgängers, a computer virus with mind-control powers, and new cafeteria cooks who aim to poison the school with salmonella. Though the show often pulls out from Mona’s fantasies to reveal the reality of the situation, Mona’s fights against the forces of darkness, usually end up somehow solving the crime or prank, exposing a conspiracy or locating the lost item anyway.

‘Buffy’ Season 9: Sci-Fi Pregnancies and the Story That Almost Was

Buffy talks to Spike about her pregnancy in the Season 9 comic Guest post written by Pauline Holdsworth for our theme week on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Infant Loss.  Nikki Wood—New York punk slayer and the mother of ex-Sunnydale High principal Robin Wood—had been absent from the Buffyverse for a long time. So it’s a bit … Continue reading “‘Buffy’ Season 9: Sci-Fi Pregnancies and the Story That Almost Was”

Quote of the Day from "When TV Became Art: What We Owe to Buffy" by Robert Moore

Buffy on the verge of killing a vampire In an article published way back in 2009, Robert Moore made the case in PopMatters for why Buffy the Vampire Slayer is such an important television show: Without any question, Buffy revolutionized the role of women on television, more even than Mary Tyler Moore or Cagney and … Continue reading “Quote of the Day from "When TV Became Art: What We Owe to Buffy" by Robert Moore”

Buffy Week: The Incoherent Metaphysics of the Buffyverse

Contains spoilers for Buffy and Angel. Not the comic books, though. Those never happened. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was famously asking the question: what if, in a typical horror-movie monster-chases-girl scenario, the girl turned around and kicked the monster’s ass? But it’s also, perhaps less wittingly, asking the question: what happens when an atheist – … Continue reading “Buffy Week: The Incoherent Metaphysics of the Buffyverse”

Reminder: Buffy Theme Week Deadline — Friday at Midnight!

Cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Hi everyone, This is just a quick reminder to let you know the deadline for receiving pieces for our Buffy theme week is this Friday. Check out our Call for Writers, and see below for guidelines: –We like most of our pieces to be 1,000 – 2,000 words, preferably … Continue reading “Reminder: Buffy Theme Week Deadline — Friday at Midnight!”

What We Owe to Buffy

Without any question, Buffy revolutionized the role of women on television, more even than Mary Tyler Moore or Cagney and Lacey or Murphy Brown or Ally McBeal. If you look at female heroes (as opposed to hapless heroines–I have always thought that the definition of heroine should be “endangered female in need of rescue by … Continue reading “What We Owe to Buffy”