Nominations for the Four Annual Mr. Pointy Award

for Buffy Studies Scholarship (2008)

 

Nominations for the Fourth Annual Mr. Pointy Awards (2008) are now closed. Those who have attended a Slayage conference and/or who are members of the Slayage board may vote for one in each category. Send votes to rhonda_w@gdn.edu by May 31.

 

Long Mr. Pointy:

Davidson, Joy, ed. The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Dallas: BenBella, 2007.

Espenson, Jane, ed. Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essay’s on Joss Whedon’s Firefly Universe. Dallas: BenBella, 2007.

Levine, Elana, and Lisa Parks, eds. Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Durham: Duke UP, 2007.

Maio, Barbara, ed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Rome: Bulzoni, 2007.

Short Mr. Pointy:

Burr, Vivien, and Christine Jarvis. “Imagining the Family: Representations of Alternative Lifestyles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Qualitative Social Work 6.3 (2007): 263-80.

Call, Lewis. “’Sounds Like Kinky Business to Me’: Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in the Buffyverse.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 [24].

Jowett, Lorna. “Helping the Hopeless: Angel as Critical Dystopia.” Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fictions 2.1 (Spring 2007): 74-89.

Pateman, Matthew. “’That Was Nifty’: Willow Rosenberg Saves the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25.4 (Summer 2007): 64-77.

Rambo, Elizabeth. “’Queen C’ in Boys’ Town: Killing the Angel in Angel’s House.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.3 [23].