SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Films: | Television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

»Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by Joss Whedon. The show's concept is based on the 1992 film, also written by Whedon, although they are separate and distinct productions. Whedon served as executive producer and showrunner of the series under his production tag Mutant Enemy Productions. It aired on The WB from March 10, 1997, to May 22, 2001, and later on UPN from October 2, 2001, to May 20, 2003.
The series follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a succession of young women known as "Vampire Slayers". Slayers are chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Buffy wants to live a normal life, but learns to embrace her destiny as the series progresses. Like previous Slayers, she is aided by a Watcher, who guides, teaches and trains her. Unlike her predecessors, Buffy surrounds herself with loyal friends who become known as the "Scoobies". The show primarily takes place in the fictional setting of Sunnydale, a small Southern California city located on a "Hellmouth"; a portal "between this reality and the next", and a convergence point of mystical energies.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape; Cricrumstances: Rape by Deception | Offenders: Biological Status: Vampires | Society: Rape Culture: General

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[Info] Berridge, Susan. »Teen heroine TV: Narrative complexity and sexual violence in female-fronted teen drama series.« New Review of Film and Television Studies 11 (2013): 477-496.

[Info] Berridge, Susan. »Empowered Vulnerability? A Feminist Response to the Ubiquity of Sexual Violence in the Pilots of Female-Fronted Teen Drama Series.« Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture. Edited by Kumarini Silva et al. New York 2015: 91-105.

[Info] Polletta, Francesca, et al. »Date Rape After the Afterschool Special: Narrative Trends in the Televised Depiction of Social Problems.« Sociological Forum 29 (2014): 527-548.

[Info] Scholz, Janina. »Sexuelle Gewalt in den Vampirserien Buffy the Vampire Slayer and True Blood.« Sexuelle Gewalt im Film. Edited by Jochem Kotthaus. Weinheim 2015: 169-186.

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[Info] Esh, Pragya, et al. »Seeing Red: Examining sexualized violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« The F Word. rabble podcast network 2015.

[Info] Foster, Cheyenne R., et al. »'You Wear that Come Bite Me Outfit...': Vampires as a Rape Metaphor Buffy the Vampire Slayer.«; 7th biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse. Kingston 2016.

[Info] Foster, Cheyenne R., et al. »You Wear that Come Bite Me Outfit ...: Vampires as a Rape Metaphor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« 72^nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. New Orleans 2016.

Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome to the Hellmouth

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"Welcome to the Hellmouth" is the series premiere of the American supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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[Info] De Vido, Angelica. »“I Want to be a Macho Man”: Examining Rape Culture, Adolescent Female Sexuality, and the Destabilisation of Gender Binaries in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« Gender Forum No. 60 (2016): 24-42.

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Season 1, Episode 2: The Harvest

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»"The Harvest" is the second episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 1, Episode 4 : Teacher’s Pet

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"Teacher's Pet" is the fourth episode of the first season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 1, Episode 7: Angel

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»"Angel" is the seventh episode of season 1 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 1, Episode 12: Prophesy Girl

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»"Prophecy Girl" is the season finale of the first season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the 12th and final episode of the series.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 2, Episode 10: What’s My Line? Part 2

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»"What's My Line?" is a two-episode story arc in season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (...) In part two, Angel is kidnapped by Spike for a ritual in which Drusilla is restored to health.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Season 2, Episode 14: Innocence

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»"Innocence" is episode 14 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (...) "Innocence" is one of the most critically acclaimed and highest rated episodes in the series«. (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 2, Episode 15: Phases

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»"Phases" is episode 15 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (...) In the episode, Oz learns that he is a werewolf, while Buffy endures the emotional trauma of dealing with Angelus.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 2, Episode 16: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

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»"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is episode 16 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (...)
In this episode, Cordelia breaks up with Xander after her friends mock her. Xander retaliates by attempting a love spell to "put her through the same hell", and he gets a little more than he had bargained for.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 2, Episode 20: Go Fish

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»"Go Fish" is episode 20 of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 2, Episode 22: Becoming: Part Two

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»"Becoming" is the season finale of the second season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, consisting of the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes. (...)
The two episodes feature vampire slayers Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Kendra working to prevent Angelus (David Boreanaz) and fellow vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (James Marsters) from awakening the demon Acathla.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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Season 3, Episode: The Wish

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»"The Wish" is the ninth episode of season three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by Marti Noxon, directed by David Greenwalt, and first broadcast on The WB on December 8, 1998.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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[Info] Esh, Pragya, et al. »Seeing Red: Examining sexualized violence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« The F Word. rabble podcast network 2015.

[Info] Foster, Cheyenne R., et al. »'You Wear that Come Bite Me Outfit...': Vampires as a Rape Metaphor Buffy the Vampire Slayer.« 7th biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse. Kingston 2016.

Season 4, Episode 15: ‘This Years’ Girl’

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"This Year's Girl" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the American supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written by Doug Petrie and directed by Michael Gershman, it originally aired on The WB on February 22, 2000. In the series, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight evil forces. "This Year's Girl" is the first half of a two-part story arc featuring the return of the rogue Slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), who Buffy put into a coma in the season three finale. In this episode, Faith wakes up to find that months have passed and the Mayor (Harry Groener) is dead. She then exacts revenge by swapping bodies with Buffy in a cliffhanger ending.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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[Info] Prater, Lenise, et al »Rape by Deception in Popular Culture: The Hidden Harm in Body-swap Narratives.« Australian Feminist Studies (February 27, 2024).

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Season 4, Episode 16: ‘Who Are You?’

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"Who Are You?" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and originally aired on The WB on February 29, 2000.
In the series, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight evil forces. "Who Are You?" is the second half of a two-part story arc featuring the return of the rogue Slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku) and is a turning point in the character's redemptive arc. The previous episode saw Faith use a magical device to swap bodies with Buffy, and Whedon wanted to use this premise to explore Faith's psyche and give her a moral epiphany. In Buffy's body, Faith experiences love and acceptance from others and realizes how unhappy her own life is. Initially dismissive of Buffy's morality, Faith also comes to appreciate a Slayer's duty to protect others. Whedon used the phrase "Because it's wrong", said by Faith mockingly at first but with full conviction by the end, to convey her psychological transformation. The body swap premise meant that Gellar played Faith and Dushku played Buffy for much of the episode. « (Extract from: Wikipedia)

B i b l i o g r a p h y

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[Info] Prater, Lenise, et al »Rape by Deception in Popular Culture: The Hidden Harm in Body-swap Narratives.« Australian Feminist Studies (February 27, 2024).

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