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Buffy Meets the Academy
Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts
Edited by Kevin K. Durand

ISBN 978-0-7864-4355-0
bibliographies, index
230pp. softcover 2009

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Description
This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same serious attention that is paid to classic philosophy and other long-established fields. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism, redemption, patriarchy, identity and education.

About the Author
Kevin K. Durand is an associate professor of philosophy at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics, and this is his third book. Mary K. Leigh is an adjunct instructor of philosophy and English at Henderson State University. She lives in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

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