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'Choose a text featuring vampires to analyse - it could be a film, a television programme, a novel, a short story, a cartoon, a comic book, a toy or even a news story. Then offer a feminist reading of your text, discussing how femininity is portrayed'
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer In this essay, the popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is explored through the intersections of post-feminism and post-modernity; and the manner in which this television narrative appropriates body rhetorics and narrative agency from traditionally masculinist meta-narratives in the horror and mystery genres. Moreover, how the fictional characters negotiate the politics of feminism and post-modernity in contemporary American suburban life is examined. Social and mystical powers (on the side of good) are matrilineal in the series: only females can be vampire slayers, only females can have supernatural powers, and only females can discern who the predators are. (The sole exception is the "Watcher," Giles, a decidedly femininised male.) Through the narrative frame of the series, each episode is grounded in the tension between the embodied female heroine and the varied embodiments of evil she and her friends encounter. Each encounter requires the heroine to count the...
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