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Article: Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. .(Book Review)
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- Extrapolation
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- September 22, 2002
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David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox, eds, Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lanham, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 320 pp. $24.95.
Once again, pop culture meets the parenthetical in this compilation of critical studies focusing on the popular television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In bringing together a collection of scholarly essays that minutely examine a show many watch for pure entertainment, editors Wilcox and Lavery have opened an intriguing doorway to fans of the show, giving us opportunities to reflect on aspects of the show we have never examined before. In what ways could Buffy be construed as racist, and ...