Buffy Scholar/Critic

Vanessa Knights is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Her interests include Popular music in Latin America; feminism and women's movements in contemporary Spain and Latin America; contemporary Spanish and Spanish American narrative. Articles forthcoming on Spanish science fiction; popular music, modernization and constructions of modernity in Latin America, camp musical discourses in the films of Almodóvar and Latin divas as gay icons. She is currently working on the formation of identities in popular music and literature in the Hispanic Caribbean.

 

Attinello, Paul and Vanessa Knights. Sounds of the Slayer: Music and Silence in Buffy and Angel (in development).

Knights, Vanessa. "'Bay City Rollers. Now That’s Music’: Coolness, Crassness and Characterisation on Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Paper given at Sonic Synergies, Creative Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, July 2003.

___. “Sound, Silence, Score and Song in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Paper given at Blood, Text and Fears, University of East Anglia, October 2002.

 

EBS Entries

 

Bay City Rollers

"Behind Blue Eyes"

"Believe"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Album

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale

Cuernevaca

Dion

Fray

"Free Bird"

"Greatest Love of All"

humus

"I am the Walrus"

"I Did It My Way"

"I Wanna be Sedated"

KC and the Sunshine Band

"Louie Louie"

Manchester United

"Memory of a Festival"

"My Girl"

Nerf Herder

Once More with Feeling CD

"Rockin the Casbah"

"School's Out"

Sound of Music

"Tales of Brave Ulysses"

"Tears of a Clown"

"Walk Like an Egyptian"

"Wind Beneath my Wings"

"With a Little Help from My Friends"