The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Could there have been television without California? California without television? The one shows the other: the ostentatiously novel singularity of the place and the seemingly self-effacing transparency of the medium. Yet if television and California both promise again and again to offer us somethi...

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Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2014
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