Joss Whedon vs. the horror tradition : the production of genre in Buffy and beyond / edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Whedon studies and the ghost of horror / Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett -- Part I. (Under)groundwork: horro concepts and conventions in the Whedonverse. -- The slasher template: Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. John Carpenter's Halloween / Clayton Dillard -- The sonic horror of "Hush" / Selma A. Purac -- "The body" that will not sit up: shock, stasis, and the negative space of the horror genre / Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare -- The melancholy musical: horror and avant-garde strategies in "Once more, with feeling" / Anne Golden -- Angel's dreams, our nightmares: oneiric horror in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Cynthia Burkhead -- Dollhouse's terrible places: hauntings, abjection, and the repressed / Bronwen Calvert -- Inscription and subversion: The cabin in the woods and the postmodern horror tradition / Stephanie Graves -- Part II. Mutant enemies: tv horror, industry, and influence -- "For all I know, it could be hilarious or it could suck": situating the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) in period vampire comedy / Jerry D. Metz Jr. -- Monstrous puppet masters: negotiating violence and horror in the Whendon tele-verse / Stacey Abbott -- Forever knight, Angel, and Supernatural: a genealogy of television horror/crime hybrids / Erin Giannini -- Part III. "It's about power": revisiting Whedon's "revisionist" horro -- Whedon, feministm, and the possibility of feminist horror on television / Lorna Jowett -- Weird Whedon: cosmic dread and sublime alterity in the Whedonverse / Kristopher Karl Woofter -- "All the better to know you": investigating the hybrid monster and allegories of self/other in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / K. Brenna Wardell -- Horror and the last frontier: monstrous borders and bodies in Firefly and Westworld / Karen Herland -- The half-lives of horror: the differential embodiments of Dollhouse / Alanna Thain -- Appendix I. The work of Joss Whedon and the horror tradition: a selected bibliography / compiled by Alysa Hornick -- Appendix II. Foundational works in horror and related scholarship