Lynne Y. Edwards is an associate professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College. Elizabeth L. Rambo is an associate professor of English at Campbell University. James B. South is an associate professor and chair of the philosophy department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Foreword by David Lavery
Preface: At Sixes and Sevens in Sunnydale

Section 1. Auteurs
(Writers, Directors, Producers)

Marti Noxon: Buffy's Other Genius

DAVID PERRY

Understanding the Espensode

DAVID KOCIEMBA

Section 2. Characters
(Lovers, Fans and Heroes)

Evil, Skanky, and Kinda Gay: Lesbian Images and Issues

ALISSA WILTS

"It's complicated ... because of Tara": History, Identity Politics, and the Straight White Male Author

BRANDY RYAN

The Candide of Sunnydale: Andrew Wells as Satire of Pop Culture and Marketing Trends

IRA SHULL AND ANNE SHULL

Section 3. Story
(Flesh, Style and Purpose)Buffy and the Death of Style

MICHAEL ADAMS

"Set on This Earth Like a Bubble": Word as Flesh in the Dark Seasons

RHONDA V. WILCOX

Bodies and Narrative in Crisis: Figures of Rupture and Chaos in Seasons Six and Seven GREGORY ERICKSON AND JENNIFER LEMBERG

Reality Bites: Buffy in the UPN Years

LYNNE Y. EDWARDS AND CARLY HAINES

Section 4: Seasons
(At Sixes and Sevens)

"Just a Family Legend": The Hidden Logic of Buffy's "Chosen Family"

AGNES B. CURRY AND JOSEF VELAZQUEZ

Yeats's Entropic Gyre and Season

ELIZABETH L. RAMBO

Season Six and the Supreme Ordeal

PAUL HAWKINS

Kiss Kiss, Stake Stake: Storytelling and the Philosophical Pleasures of Season Seven

JAMES B. SOUTH

Appendix: Episode Guides for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
About the Contributors
Index