TELEVISED MORALITY: THE CASE OF BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Buffy Studies.

By Greg Stevenson, Professor of Religion, Rochester College.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Taking Buffy Seriously

Chapter 2: The Moral Battleground

Chapter 3: Storytellers

Chapter 4: Buffy's Story

Chapter 5: Buffy's World

Chapter 6: Human Nature

Chapter 7: Identity and the Quest for Self

Chapter 8: A Tale of Two Slayers: Identity, Sacrifice, and Salvation

Chapter 9: Systems of Power: Technology, Magic, and Institutional Authority

Chapter 10: Together or Alone? The Dynamics of Community and Family

Chapter 11: The End as Moral Guidepost

Chapter 12: Morals and Consequences

Chapter 13: Sexuality

Chapter 14: Violence and Vengeance

Chapter 15: Guilt and Forgiveness

Chapter 16: The Vampire, the Witch and the Warlock: Patterns of Redemption

Conclusion: Buffy and Moral Discourse

Notes

Episode Guide

Bibliography

Index

About the Author