Winners of the Third Annual Mr. Pointy Award
for Buffy Studies Scholarship
The winners of the 2006 Mr. Pointy Awards for Buffy Studies Scholarship have been chosen. All the nominees are listed below. To see the winners of the 2005 Mr. Pointy Awards, go here. To see the winners of the 2004 Mr. Pointy Awards, go here.
2006 Mr. Pointy Paper Award Winner (for the best paper at the Slayage Conference): Stacey Abbott, Cavemen or Astronauts, Weapons to be Determined: Angel, Spike and the Buddy Genre
2006 Long Mr. Pointy Award Winner: Rhonda Wilcox – Why Buffy Matters (I. B. Tauris)
2006 Short Mr. Pointy Award Winner: Gwyn Symonds – “Playing More Soul Than is Written: James Marsters’ Performance as Spike and the Ambiguity of Evil in Sunnydale” (Slayage)
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Nominees Long Mr. Pointy: Jes Battis – Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (McFarland) Lorna Jowett – Sex and the Slayer (Wesleyan University Press) Stacey Abbott, ed. Reading Angel: The The TV Spin-Off with a Soul (Tauris) |
Nominees Short Mr. Pointy: Jennifer Hudson – “‘She’s Unpredictable’: Illyria and the Liberating Potential of Chaotic Postmodern Identity” (American Popular Culture) Janet Halfyard – “Singing Their Hearts Out: Performance, Sincerity and Musical Diegesis in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Slayage) Richard Albright – “‘Breakaway pop hit . . . book number?’: Once More, with Feeling and Genre” (Slayage) |
