{"id":5376,"date":"2008-06-06T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/academic-conference-examines-b.html"},"modified":"2008-06-06T06:48:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:48:46","slug":"academic-conference-examines-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/academic-conference-examines-b.html","title":{"rendered":"Academic conference examines “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess Buffy is a lot more fun to watch<\/a> than spending your time reading dry philosophy tomes.<\/p>\n

Aristotle. Nietzsche. Buffy? The blonde heroine of the campy television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” as well as other works by director and writer Josh Whedon, will be the focus of a three-day academic conference held at Henderson State University beginning Friday.
\n[…]
\nSince it ended, the series has spawned enough academic books on the philosophy surrounding the roles of friendship and feminism to fill a bookshelf stretching 15 feet long at the college in Arkadelphia, said Kevin Durand, an associate professor of philosophy at the school.
\n[…]
\nDurand said more than 90 academic papers will be discussed at the conference. He expects about 150 people to attend and discuss the vampire slayer and Whedon’s other works, like the television series “Firefly” and “Angel.” Another point of discussion will be a lesser-known part of Whedon’s work \u2014 his screenplay for the hit animated film “Toy Story.”
\nAmong the papers: “Buffy and Feminism,” “Buffy and Identity,” “Gender Stereotypes and the Image of Domesticity in ‘Firefly,'” “‘Firefly:’ The Illusive Safety of Big Damn Heroes” and a Durand favorite by a British scholar, “Hero’s Journey, Heroine’s Return: Buffy, Eurydice and the Orpheus Myth.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An interpretation of this post from the Reformed perspective<\/a>:You know, it’s interesting that these academics use Buffy to aid them in their search for answers. It tells you something about the culture, doesn’t it? We’d rather search a TV about vampires for the meaning of life instead of the word of the Creator of the universe. I would think he would know a thing or two about life, don’t you? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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