Elana Levine is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, also published by Duke University Press. Lisa Parks is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual, also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Elana Levine and Lisa Parks 1
1. The Changing Face of Teen Television, or Why We All Love Buffy / Mary
Celeste Kearney 17
2. I Know What You Did Last Summer: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Crossover
Teen Stardom / Susan Murray 43
3. Vampire Hunters: The Scheduling and Reception of Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and Angel in the United Kingdom / Annette Hill and Ian Calcutt 56
4. The Epistemological Stakes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television
Criticism and Marketing Demands / Amelie Hastie 74
5. “Did Anyone Ever Explain to You What ‘Secret Identity’ Means?” Race and
Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel / Cynthia Fuchs 96
6. At Stake: Angel’s Body, Fantasy Masculinity, and Queer Desire in Teen
Television / Allison McCracken 116
7. Buffy as Femme Fatale: The Cult Heroine and the Male Spectator / Jason
Middleton 145
8. Buffy and the “New Girl Order”: Defining Feminism and Femininity / Elana
Levine 168
Bibliography 191
Contributors 197
Index 199
