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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description 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 something new, young, immaculate in its transience — a pure surface that will never get caught in the ditch of time — they are also both haunted through and through: by the itinerant contents of the past that they cannot banish, by memories of the infantile-perverse utopian fantasies that taunt us in constant replay (“If you’re going to San Francisco…,” “two girls for every guy”), by the contradiction played out in the very gesture of dismissing history and leaving the dead to bury the dead. California and television, as it were, conspire in a vampirologic: the forever-young is what has been there the longest, what really “takes us back.”
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-354922025-01-26T14:50:49Z The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Adler, Anthony Curtis California television media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies 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 something new, young, immaculate in its transience — a pure surface that will never get caught in the ditch of time — they are also both haunted through and through: by the itinerant contents of the past that they cannot banish, by memories of the infantile-perverse utopian fantasies that taunt us in constant replay (“If you’re going to San Francisco…,” “two girls for every guy”), by the contradiction played out in the very gesture of dismissing history and leaving the dead to bury the dead. California and television, as it were, conspire in a vampirologic: the forever-young is what has been there the longest, what really “takes us back.” 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:43:18Z 2014 book 1004538 OCN: 945782704 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25557 9780615955742 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35492 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25557/1/1004538.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25557/1/1004538.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25557/1/1004538.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25557/1/1004538.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25557/1/1004538.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0061.1.00 10.21983/P3.0061.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 9780615955742 ScholarLed 76 Brooklyn, NY open access
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