Across the pop culture landscape, we’re seeing “an attempt to really start domesticating the notion of death,” says Syracuse University television professor Robert Thompson. Science has answered many of our questions, he says, but “Hamlet’s `undiscovered country’ is just as undiscovered as it was when Hamlet first made that soliloquy.” … In times of anxiety, [...]
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Domesticating Death
Posted in news, television, tagged buffy the vampire slayer, dead like me, death, domesticity, mundane on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Feminism’s Final Girl
Posted in scholarly articles, television, tagged buffy the vampire slayer, feminism, final girl on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following are my notes for a lecture on Feminism’s Final Girl. Most of the notes are direct quotes from the article, “The Third Wave’s Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer” by Irene Karras, which was published by Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, interspersed with my own personal notes. I did [...]
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