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eumeliaBut it's true.
I was looking at my book shelf, searching for something to read, because I'm only a few short stories away from finishing "Fragile Things" and I have many borrowed books from friends and many books of my own which I bought but haven't read yet and I discovered something very interesting.
The majority of my non-fiction books are about Feminism and Buffy.
The Feminist theory books really are a dime a dozen, many active Feminists have "The Second Sex" and "The Beauty Myth", the radical ones will most likely have "Gender Trouble" and other Butler books.
Friends, I only have the first four seasons of Buffy on DVD, one Soundtrack (not the musical, one or two of the old Buffy comic books from Dark Horse (looking forward to Season eight, which I intend to own as it comes out) and am a member of the Sunnydale Embassy is Israel (the Israeli Buffy Fan-club). Not too shabby for an Old-School* Fan, but not much compared to others, who have the Buffy Box-Set, all the Angel Seasons, Firefly and Serenity, an array of Buffy novels**, all the Soundtracks from all the shows and a bunch of Buffy paraphernalia.
Me? I have six (soon to be seven) Academic Books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer***.
That is scary.
The first one, I got for my Birthday right after Season Five ended, where we were all in mourning, because Buffy had died after one of the most emotionally draining seasons ever, yes more that Season Six (but that IMO). It's "Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel" and I read in a day. It was the first time I had encountered essays that had to do with analyzing and critiquing the show that had shaped me into the person I am today. My sister and brother-in-law, who gave it to me for my 17th Birthday wrote a dedication in it stating it a "Book for a Buffy-Buff". At the time I was just happy yo have anything connected to Buffy, it being a book was even better and not a novel, since I don't understand the whole paying for Fanfiction thing (comics don't count, it's a compeltely different medium) and in it were people with degrees, writing about Buffy as a serious subject of research.
GD could the world get any better!
Indeed it could, because a year later, for my 18th birthday and for going into the Army I received the ultimate (at the time) Buffy academia primer and that is "Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale".
I think I'll keep you in suspense for the next post about my experience in Buffy the Academic Subject.
*I consider myself an Old-School Fan because I've been a an of the show since I was twelve when it first came onto to TV. Yeah, that's a lot of years.
**Including Angel novels.
***And Angel: The Series, of course.
I was looking at my book shelf, searching for something to read, because I'm only a few short stories away from finishing "Fragile Things" and I have many borrowed books from friends and many books of my own which I bought but haven't read yet and I discovered something very interesting.
The majority of my non-fiction books are about Feminism and Buffy.
The Feminist theory books really are a dime a dozen, many active Feminists have "The Second Sex" and "The Beauty Myth", the radical ones will most likely have "Gender Trouble" and other Butler books.
Friends, I only have the first four seasons of Buffy on DVD, one Soundtrack (not the musical, one or two of the old Buffy comic books from Dark Horse (looking forward to Season eight, which I intend to own as it comes out) and am a member of the Sunnydale Embassy is Israel (the Israeli Buffy Fan-club). Not too shabby for an Old-School* Fan, but not much compared to others, who have the Buffy Box-Set, all the Angel Seasons, Firefly and Serenity, an array of Buffy novels**, all the Soundtracks from all the shows and a bunch of Buffy paraphernalia.
Me? I have six (soon to be seven) Academic Books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer***.
That is scary.
The first one, I got for my Birthday right after Season Five ended, where we were all in mourning, because Buffy had died after one of the most emotionally draining seasons ever, yes more that Season Six (but that IMO). It's "Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel" and I read in a day. It was the first time I had encountered essays that had to do with analyzing and critiquing the show that had shaped me into the person I am today. My sister and brother-in-law, who gave it to me for my 17th Birthday wrote a dedication in it stating it a "Book for a Buffy-Buff". At the time I was just happy yo have anything connected to Buffy, it being a book was even better and not a novel, since I don't understand the whole paying for Fanfiction thing (comics don't count, it's a compeltely different medium) and in it were people with degrees, writing about Buffy as a serious subject of research.
GD could the world get any better!
Indeed it could, because a year later, for my 18th birthday and for going into the Army I received the ultimate (at the time) Buffy academia primer and that is "Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale".
I think I'll keep you in suspense for the next post about my experience in Buffy the Academic Subject.
*I consider myself an Old-School Fan because I've been a an of the show since I was twelve when it first came onto to TV. Yeah, that's a lot of years.
**Including Angel novels.
***And Angel: The Series, of course.
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Date: 2007-01-11 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 03:32 pm (UTC)What's her user-name?
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Date: 2007-01-11 03:43 pm (UTC)Me first!
Date: 2007-01-11 04:07 pm (UTC)Can I take them out for a walk for, say, all of next week?
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Date: 2007-01-12 09:52 am (UTC)Re: Me first!
Date: 2007-01-12 09:54 am (UTC)I have "Reading the Slayer", "Seven Seasons of Buffy", "Buffy and Philosophy", "Why Buffy Matter", "The Quatable Slayer" (great reference book) and "Sex and the Alyer is currently being loaned to a friend. I'll lend you one, but no more.
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Date: 2007-01-12 09:55 am (UTC)When are you lecturing next?
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Date: 2007-01-12 03:00 pm (UTC)Critique of Pure Reason (http://www.amazon.com/Critique-Reason-Great-Books-Philosophy/dp/0879755962).
It is written by a man, but I believe it will stand the test of time better than your other choices.
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Date: 2007-01-12 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-12 03:29 pm (UTC)When I said "serious reading", I meant both style and subject.
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Date: 2007-01-12 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-12 03:47 pm (UTC)Oh, you kids and your slang. I would be lost without my Urban Dictionary (tm).
When I was a lad, back in the good old days when old Vicky still rode around in her carriage and people dressed sensibly, no such words were used.
We amused ourselves by laughing at the Whigs...
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Date: 2007-01-12 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-13 01:02 am (UTC)And, off-topic, but did I ever send you the photographs I took when we met? I just got a new camera to replace the one I had at the time because I broke it shortly after I came back home and have uploaded all the pictures from that time and have about a dozen of you and the both of us.
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Date: 2007-01-13 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-13 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-13 06:21 pm (UTC)Do you have Skype?
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Date: 2007-01-13 07:18 pm (UTC)I don't have Skype.