Teen horror-comedy meets avant garde neo-noir as we discuss Fran Kuzui’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bette Gordon’s Variety, two very different, reputedly-feminist interventions into genre. Who is a better screenwriter -- Kathy Acker or Joss Whedon? We explore this important question and more.
Links and Further Reading
Chicago review: David Kehr on how “Buffy is, like, so campy, you know?”
New York Times: Janet Maslin hates Variety
New York Times: Janet Maslin likes Buffy a little more
Another Gaze: Rebecca Liu on Screening Female Desire: Bette Gordon’s Variety 35 Years On
CUNY Queens: Kevin L. Ferguson on On Variety: The Avant-Garde Between Pornography and Narrative
Gay Community News: Cindy Patton on A Question of Variety: New Forms for Women in Movies
Going Rampant: Feminist Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer original film script by Joss Whedon
Laura Mulvey on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
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