Book -- The Aesthetics of Culture in BtVS
The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Matthew Patheman
McFarland Publishing
ISBN 0-7864-2249-1
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2249-1
After several postponements, this book has arrived.
I hope it is a good book: it looks like it ought to be,
with 15 pages of bibliography, 14 pages of index and
25 of what ought to be footnotes were they not collected
together at the back (a popular but poor choice imo,
since it is far easier to read footnotes when they are
at the foot of the page, as God and nature intended).
Oh, I've just noticed umtb alumnus Ian Shuttleworth is
in the index. There is a reference to his "glorious paean
to the power of the acting performances in Buffy and Angel"
in Shuttleworth's chapter in Reading The Vampire Slayer.
Unfortunately, commitments elsewhere mean I do not have time
to read the book this week but since my ISP, Wanadoo, is
withdrawing its usenet service in a few days, time is of
the essence.
[OT] Views on alternative news sources would be welcome.
Sfaict, the second half of the book, some five chapters, takes
Restless and each character's dream therein as the basis to
explore the series as a whole: an interesting conceit.
The one sour note is the cover and its irrelevant photograph
and silly typeface (shown at the URL above). Publishers and
academics should grow up.
Oh dear. ASH is referred to as Stewart Head. Buy it anyway.
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John.
date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:54:57 -0000
author: John L
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