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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4496534" data-attributes="member: 13855">Well, David Lavery co-started <a href="http://www.slayageonline.com" target="_blank">Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies</a>, the academic journal devoted to Buffy. He's also edited books on many other series, ranging from Seinfeld to Deadwood. The three author team have done books on Lost and Heroes as well. A number of the things that I've written on Buffy are coming out in books next year. You can find my article on The Wish <a href="http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage23/Kociemba.htm" target="_blank">here</a> and on the opening title sequences <a href="http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage22/Kociemba.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. My chapter looks at Espenson as an auteur, which is a bit heretical as academia tends to lag behind fandom in acknowledging writers who are not creators. The writing is not aggravating like some academic works can be. I was directed to write with an intelligent, interested fan and academic audience in mind. There are chapters examining themes and patterns of representation: sex, gender politics, religion, astrology, etc. I think the strength of the book is in how it fills out the typical way of understanding the BSG series. Chapters on directors who are not writers are rather rare in TV studies, and this book has two of them. There's a chapter on the webisodes and another on Razor. There's also a chapter on the initial critical response to the series from TV reviewers and the GiNO controversy amongst the fandom at the start of the series.</blockquote>

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