Blood, body and soul : essays on health, wellness and disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse /

The ever-popular "Whedonverse" television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse, have inspired hundreds of articles and dozens of books. Curiously, the focus of much of the scholarship invokes philosophical, ethical, metaphysical and other cerebral perspectives. Yet...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Burnett, Tamy, 1979- (Editor), Comeford, AmiJo, 1977- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022].
Series:	Worlds of Wheldon.
Subjects:	Whedon, Joss, > 1964- > Criticism and interpretation. People with disabilities on television. Fantasy television programs > United States > History and criticism. Science fiction television programs > United States > History and criticism. PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.

Table of Contents:

Defining the Whedonverse disability narrative ethic : examining impairment arcs in Dollhouse, Angel, and Buffy the vampire slayer / Mary Ellen Iatropoulos
Slaying the deficit in disability : exploring Buffy and Firefly/Serenity / Cynthia Headley
Angel's female freaks : (dis)abilties, professional, and personal life limitations / Lorna Jowett
"The Cliff Notes version? I want a normal life" : slayerhood as social-model disability / Elizabeth K. Switaj
Dollhouse and intellectual disability / Barbara Stock
"I want to be healthy again" : mental health and normality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Roslyn Weaver
Dr. Simon Tam, healer and humanist : medical models of health care in Firefly and Serenity / Brett S. Stifflemire
Suffering, strength, and the soul of the Slayer / Madeline Muntersbjorn
"Off with their heads!-Kidding!" : The beheading topos in Angel's Pylea / Cynthea Masson
Regarding torture in Buffy the vampire slayer's "Hush" / Erin Hollis
"You're the one who sees everything!" : Xander's eye patch and visible disability in Buffy the vampire slayer / Brian Cogan
British Vampire, "American disease" : William the Bloody as Victorian neurasthenic / J. Bowers
Trauma, technology, and the affective body in Firefly and Dollhouse / Emily James Hansen and Katheryn Wright
The token fatty : three Whedon series in search of a "normal-sized" woman / Kelly L. Richardson
"Sweetie, your epidermis is showing" : theorizing skin in and through Joss Whedon's Buffy the vampire slayer / Frances Sprout
"I've got these evil hand issues" : amputation, identity, and agency in Angel / Tamy Burnett.