Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables

pp ix-x

General Editors’ Preface

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Histories of Whedon’s works: Politics, industry, art

pp 13-14

1 - ‘Buffy is the slayer. Don’t tell anyone’: Creating a cultural phenomenon

pp 15-42

2 - ‘How do you know what this guy’s gonna do?’: Producing worlds, changing worlds

pp 43-78

3 - ‘There are so many things I’d like to be’: Multimedia polymath and mainstream cult

pp 79-112

Part II - Readings of Whedon’s works: Narratives, formats, characters

pp 113-114

4 - ‘Someone else around who can explain these matters’: The exposition scene in Buffy

pp 115-130

5 - ‘I love a story with scope’: Angel – cross-overs, complexity and conclusions

pp 131-150

6 - ‘Come with me now gentle viewers’: Popular culture and (non-Whedon) authorship

pp 151-180

7 - ‘Why’d this get so complicated?’: Narrative and televisual analysis via Firefly

pp 181-195

8 - ‘I can bring back the world’: Dollhouse – narrating the tabula rasa

pp 196-211

Coda: ‘I’m Not Done Baking’

pp 212-213

Jane Espenson Correspondence

pp 214-236

Definitive Guide to Whedon Output Week-By-Week

pp 237-251

References

pp 252-262

Index

pp 263-270