Finalists for the Ninth Annual Mr. Pointy Awards

for Buffy Studies Scholarship (2011)

 

 

Long Mr. Pointy:

Kowalski, Dean A., and S. Evan Kreider, eds. The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2011. Print.

Lavery, David, and Cynthia Burkhead, eds. Joss Whedon: Conversations. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011. Print.

Leonard, Kendra Preston, ed. Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Lanham, MA, and Toronto: Scarecrow, 2011. Print.

Macnaughtan, Don. The Buffyverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayerand Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media, 1992–2010. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2011. Print.

Stafford, Nikki, et alia. The Great Buffy Rewatch. Nik at Nite, Jan.-Dec. 2011. Web. 1 June 2012.

 

Short Mr. Pointy:

Bennett, Eve. "Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (2011): n. pag. Web. 1 June 2012.

Kociemba, David. "Why Xander Matters: The Extraordinary Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MA: Lexington, 2011. 80-101. Print.

Middents, Jeffrey. "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (With Feeling)." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. Ed. Kendra Preston Leonard. Lanham, MA, and Toronto: Scarecrow, 2011. 119-132. Print.

Vinci, Tony M. "'Not an apocalypse, the apocalypse': Existential Proletarisation and the Possibility of Soul in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse," Science Fiction Film and Television 4.2 (2011), 225-248. Print.

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "'Let it simmer': Tone in 'Pangs.'" Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 9.1 (2011): n. pag. Web. 1 June 2012.