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Article: SCHOLARS STUDY 'SLAYER SLANG'\ 'BUFFYOLOGISTS' HOLD CONFERENCE.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Byline: Karin Miller Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It's tough for scholars to be taken seriously when their subject is a TV show about a California blonde fighting evil in a high school built on a gateway to hell.
Particularly when the title is as campy as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Enough professors and writers study the comedic drama and its spinoff, "Angel," though, to hold a deadly serious academic conference here this past weekend attracting morethan 325 people.
Buffyologists from as far away as Singapore were presenting 190 papers on topics ranging from "slayer slang" to "postmodern reflections on the culture of ...