This is the second and concluding part of Kaja Franck’s blog exploring werewolves and masculinity in Season Two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To read part one click here, and if you want to share your thoughts on Buffy and Werewolves use the hashtag #BuffySlays20. The gendered nature of the werewolf is only briefly challenged in ‘Phases’ when Willow … Continue reading Buffy and the Beast: The Complicated Depiction of Werewolves and Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Part Two)
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Buffy and the Beast: The Complicated Depiction of Werewolves and Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Part One)
Today in our Buffy Blog series we have the first part of Kaja Franck’s exploration of Werewolves and Masculinity in Season Two. As always, you can keep the conversation going using #BuffySlays20. Though Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), as the name suggests, generally centres on vampire-hijinks, the seasonal narrative arcs featuring the latest ‘Big Bad’ are broken up by … Continue reading Buffy and the Beast: The Complicated Depiction of Werewolves and Masculinity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Part One)
But is it Gothic? – The Handmaid’s Tale
This week we’ll be meeting to discuss The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood, so now’s the time to grab a copy and start thinking about what makes this work of speculative fiction Gothic. The Handmaid’s Tale is one of those novels that I’ve found myself returning to time and time again through the course … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – The Handmaid’s Tale
Steven Guscott: ‘In an ideal world it shouldn’t matter, but we don’t live in an ideal world’
Steven Guscott, author of The Diary of V. Frankenstein, draws from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to create an alternate history novel, with equality at its core.Interview date: 26th May 2016, 11am.Conducted by Daniel Southward via Skype.It's a somewhat quiet day in Sheffield's Jessop West building as I sit down to interview Steven Guscott, author of The Diary … Continue reading Steven Guscott: ‘In an ideal world it shouldn’t matter, but we don’t live in an ideal world’
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