... the author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip (1998) and Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture (2004). She is currently writing a book on right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War. Buffy and Cordelia, in tattered homecoming...

... someone, “You shifted gender pronouns, sweetheart. Not that I’m judging.”7 While Joss Whedon’s Buffy (1997 – 2003) universe is known for its gender fluidity, with its female slayers and nerdy male aca- demics in supporting roles, the world of his spin-off, Angel, is even more queer — a...

... Characters like Battlestar Galactica’s Kara (Starbuck) Thrace and Farscape’s Aeryn Sun have 126  •  Camera Obscura their devotees, and both Xena: Warrior Princess  a nd Buffy the Vam- pire Slayer  are popular vidding fandoms (and both are, not acci- dentally, about female warriors). But in general...

.../feature09f.html. 3. “Morgan Dawn Fan Fiction and Music Videos,” 24 December 2003, web.archive.org/web/20031224130007/httpwww .morgandawn.com/VidEntry.html. 4. There are some interesting exceptions; some Xena and Buffy vidders founded centralized public vid listings. 5. “Who We Are...

...- sion shows (The Brady Bunch, Mission Impossible, South Park), televi- sion shows remake popular films (M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and both films and television shows remake or adapt comic book stories (Superman, Batman, and the like). These various relations are complicated...

...), The X Files (Fox, 1993 – 2002; 2016 – ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB, 1997 – 2001; UPN, 2001 – 3), and Lost (ABC, 2004 – 10) that is at odds with MLPFIM’s accidental audience. The “cult” of MLPFIM more resembles the practices circulating cult cinema, films that are enthusiastically...