Long Mr. Pointy:

Matthew Pateman, The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (McFarland)

J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb, The Existential Joss Whedon (McFarland)

Short Mr. Pointy:

Anthony Bradney, "The Politics and Ethics of Researching the Buffyverse," Slayage 5.3 [19] http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage19/Bradney.htm

Dee Amy-Chinn, "'Tis Pity She's a Whore." Feminist Media Studies 6.2 (June 2006)

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Erin Hollis, "Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, BtVS, and the Aesthetic of Minutiae," Slayage 6.2 [22] http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage22/Hollis.htm

David Kociemba, "'Actually, it explains a lot': Reading the Opening Title Sequences of BtVS," Slayage 6.2 [22]

http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage22/Kociemba.htm 

Cynthea Masson and Marni Stanley, “Queer Eye of That Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp.” Slayage 6.2 [22] http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage22/Masson_Stanley.htm 

Rhonda Wilcox, "In 'The Demon Section of the Card Catalog': Buffy Studies and Television Studies," Critical Studies in Television 1.1 (2006); rpt. in Slayage 6.1 [21]

http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage21/Wilcox.htm 

[Nota Bene: Rhonda Wilcox, having won the Mr. Pointy award for 2005 book, wishes to gratefully acknowledge this nomination but requests to be omitted from consideration in the vote this year.]