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Transmediating the Whedonverse(s)

Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts

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Editors:
  1. Juliette C. Kitchens

    1. Department of Writing and Communication, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA

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  2. Julie L. Hawk

    1. Department of English, The University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA

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  • The first volume to focus on the transmediation of a specific auteur
  • Utilizes a multidiscpinarly approach, drawing upon transmedia studies, fandom studies, Whedon studies, feminism, posthumanism, film studies, and narratology
  • Analyzes Whedon's role in creating metatexts that work to connect autonomous paratexts

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Exploring a Whedonverse, the Whedonverses, and the Whedonverse(s): The Shape of Transmedia Storytelling in Joss Whedon’s World(s)

    • Juliette C. Kitchens, Julie L. Hawk
    Pages 1-15

  3. Un-Warren-Ted: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Transgressive Fandom

    • Dustin Dunaway
    Pages 17-40

  4. History Has Its Eyes on the Greatest Hellmouth in the World: Transmedia, Hint Fiction, and Mashup Memes

    • Karen Walsh
    Pages 41-63

  5. Transmediating the Whedon Classroom

    • Casey McCormick
    Pages 65-85

  6. “This Is the Next Me”: The Evolution of AI in the Whedonverses

    • Lisa K. Perdigao
    Pages 87-116

  7. “You’re Not the Source of Me”: Navigating and Mastering the Transmedial at the End of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Fourth Season

    • Marc McKee
    Pages 117-140

  8. “To Speak Against an Opponent Eloquently Makes You an Unusual Personage”: Joss Whedon as Deleuzian “Minor Writer”

    • Michael Starr
    Pages 141-165

  9. The Transtextual Road Trip: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Televisual Forebears

    • Stephanie A. Graves
    Pages 167-199

  10. A Brief Note on Looking Forward

    • Julie L. Hawk, Juliette C. Kitchens
    Pages 201-206

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 207-210
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About this book

This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon. As such, the book addresses the ways in which Whedon’s storyworlds, or ‘verses, employ transmedia, both intrinsically as texts and extrinsically as these texts are consumed and, in some cases, reworked, by audiences. This collection walks readers through fan and scholar-fan engagement, intrinsic textual transmediality, and Whedon’s lasting influence on televisual and transmedia texts. In closing, the editors argue for the need to continue research into how the Whedonverse(s) lend themselves to transmedial study, engage audiences in ways that take advantage of multiple media, and encourage textual internalization of these engagements within audiences. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Writing and Communication, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA

    Juliette C. Kitchens

  • Department of English, The University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA

    Julie L. Hawk

About the editors

Juliette C. Kitchens is an Associate Professor of Writing and Communication at Nova Southeastern University. 


Julie L. Hawk is a Lecturer in English and Research Development Coordinator at the University of West Georgia.



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