Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing write by Kendra Preston Leonard. This book was released on 2010-11-16. Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe (or "Whedonverse"). Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon studies the significant role that music plays in these works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Kendra Preston Leonard has collected a varying selection of essays that explore music and sound in Joss Whedon's works. The essays investigate both diegetic and non-diegetic music, considering music from various sources, including the shows' original scores, music performed by the characters themselves, and music contributed by such artists as Michelle Branch, The Sex Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, as well as classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms. The approaches incorporate historical and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media studies, cultural history, and interdisciplinary readings. The book also explores the compositions written by Whedon himself: the theme music for Firefly, and two fully integrated musicals, the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. With several musical examples, a table with a full breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode "Hush," and an index, this volume will be fascinating to students and scholars of science-fiction, television, film, and popular culture.
The Whedonverse Catalog
The Whedonverse Catalog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Whedonverse Catalog write by Don Macnaughtan. This book was released on 2018-06-04. The Whedonverse Catalog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.
Joss Whedon and Race
Joss Whedon and Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joss Whedon and Race write by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Joss Whedon and Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joss Whedon is known for exploring philosophical questions through socially progressive narratives in his films, television shows and comics. His work critiques racial stereotypes, sometimes repudiating them, sometimes reinvesting in them (sometimes both at once). This collection of new essays explores his representations of racial power dynamics between individuals and institutions and how the Whedonverse constructs race, ethnicity and nationality relationships.
The Buffyverse Catalog
The Buffyverse Catalog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Buffyverse Catalog write by Don Macnaughtan. This book was released on 2015-08-21. The Buffyverse Catalog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bibliographic guide covers the “Buffyverse”—the fictional worlds of the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), as well as the original Buffy feature film of 1992. It is the largest and most inclusive work of its kind. The author organizes and describes both the original texts of the Buffyverse (episodes, DVDs, novels, comic books, games, and more) and the secondary materials created about the shows, including books, essays, articles, documentaries, dissertations, fan production and websites. This vast and diverse collection of information about these two seminal shows and their feature-film forebear provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive survey of the subject.
Sounds of Fear and Wonder
Sounds of Fear and Wonder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sounds of Fear and Wonder write by Janet K. Halfyard. This book was released on 2016-06-20. Sounds of Fear and Wonder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The different scoring strategies employed in supernatural and horror-based genres, comprising for example True Blood and Supernatural, are considered alongside cult shows set in our reality, such as Dexter, The Sopranos and 24. These discussions are complimented by in-depth case studies of musical approaches in two high-profile series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Hannibal. Written from a musicological standpoint but fully accessible to non-musicologists, the book significantly advances television and music studies.
