Table of Contents

Preface
Emily Dial-Driver     
Introduction
Jim Ford     

What’s It All About, Buffy? Victor Frank and Buffy
Emily Dial-Driver     
Got Myself a Soul? The Puzzling Treatment of the Soul in Buffy
J. Renée Cox     
Not Just Another Love Song: Buffy’s Music as Representation of Emerging Adulthood
Jacqueline Bach     
Is That Stereotype Dead? Working with and Against “Western” Stereotypes in Buffy
Sally Emmons-Featherston     
Lord Acton Is Alive and Well in Sunnydale: Politics and Power in Buffy
Kenneth S. Hicks     
Willow’s Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by Connections
Frances E. Morris     
Is It Art? The Artful “Hush” of St. Francis and the Gentlemen Blue Meanies
Gary Moeller     
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Brechtian Techniques in Buffy
David Blakely     
“The Ants Go Marching”: Effective Lyrics in Buffy Episodes
Lori M. Butler     
“Love the One You’re With”: Developing Xander
J. Michael McKeon     
Texting Buffy: Allusions of Many Kinds
Emily Dial-Driver and Jesse Stallings     
“What Shall Cordelia Say?” Buffy as Morality Play for the Twenty-First Century’s Therapeutic Ethos
Gregory J. Thompson and Sally Emmons-Featherston     
Witchy Women: Witchcraft in Buffy and in Contemporary African Culture
Juliet Evusa     
“I’m Cookie Dough”: Exploring Buffy Iconography
Kenneth S. Hicks and Carolyn Anne Taylor     
A Life Well-Lived: Buffy and the Pursuit of Happiness
Jim Ford     

Appendix: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes     
Works Cited     
About the Contributors     
Index