Joss Whedon FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, the Avengers, and More
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2019
400 pages
978-1-4930-5073-4 (ISBN)
Description
Providing a career-spanning view of everyone's favorite geek writer and director, Joss Whedon FAQ offers answers to fans' questions about one of the most significant pop culture auteurs of the past twenty-five years. The book gazes at Whedon's early work in Hollywood as a script doctor on films such The Quick and the Dead (1995) and Waterworld (1995), and follows his career as he became the cult-favorite creator of such sensations as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
In addition to looking at Whedon's ascent to blockbuster superhero filmmaking with titles such as The Avengers, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Justice League, this eminently readable compendium explores Whedon's lesser known but no less fascinating forays into the world of Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) and even big-screen romantic fantasy (In Your Eyes). The book closes with discussions of Whedon's politics and feminism, as well as a catalog of his (unofficial) repertory company and a list of the most memorable on-screen character deaths in his canon.
In addition to looking at Whedon's ascent to blockbuster superhero filmmaking with titles such as The Avengers, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Justice League, this eminently readable compendium explores Whedon's lesser known but no less fascinating forays into the world of Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) and even big-screen romantic fantasy (In Your Eyes). The book closes with discussions of Whedon's politics and feminism, as well as a catalog of his (unofficial) repertory company and a list of the most memorable on-screen character deaths in his canon.
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1. Auflage
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English
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New York
United States
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Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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80 BW Photos
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978-1-4930-5073-4 (9781493050734)
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John Kenneth Muir
Joss Whedon FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, the Avengers, and More
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11/2019
Applause Theatre Book Publishers
€30.30
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Person
John Kenneth Muir is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books about film and television and the creator of the web series The House Between (2007-2009). He is the Department Chair for Humanities and Social Sciences at South Piedmont Community College. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, twelve-year-old son, three cats, and a bearded dragon.
Content
- Joss Whedon FAQ
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: In the Beginning
- 1 Who Is Joss Whedon? (An Introduction to Joss Whedon FAQ)
- 2 How Did Joss Whedon Get His Start? Family History and Career First Steps
- 3 What Was Joss Whedon's First Movie? Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- 4 Did Joss Whedon Write a "Shitty" Alien Movie? Alien Resurrection (1997)
- Part II: The Script Doctor Is In
- 5 Did Joss Whedon Write a Hit Movie and Not Get Any Credit for It? Speed (1994)
- 6 Did Joss Whedon Ever Get Nominated for an Oscar? Toy Story (1995)
- 7 Did Joss Whedon Work on the So-Called Biggest Bomb in Hollywood History? Waterworld (1995)
- 8 Did Joss Whedon Write an Animated Film? Titan A.E. (2000)
- 9 Is There a (Script) Doctor in the House? Or: On What Other Films Did Joss Whedon Work as Script Doctor?
- Part III: The Cult Creator
- 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
- 11 What Are the Five Best Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
- 12 Angel (1999-2004)
- 13 What Are the Five Best Episodes of Angel?
- 14 Firefly (2002-2003)
- 15 What Are the Five-Best Episodes of Firefly?
- 16 Serenity (2005)
- 17 Did Joss Whedon create a Web Series? Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog (2008)
- 18 Dollhouse (2009-2010)
- 19 What Are the Five-Best Episodes of Dollhouse?
- 20 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013- )
- 21 What Are the Five-Best Episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
- Part IV: The Superhero Whisperer
- 22 The Avengers (2012)
- 23 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- 24 Justice League (2017)
- 25 Is Joss Whedon Going to Write and Direct Batgirl?
- 26 Does Joss Whedon Write Comic Books?
- Part V: Other Projects
- 27 Did Joss Whedon Adapt Shakespeare? Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
- 28 Did Joss Whedon Write a Horror Movie? The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
- 29 Did Joss Whedon Write a Love Story? In Your Eyes (2014)
- Part VI: Politics and Personnel
- 30 What Are Joss Whedon's Politics?
- 31 Is Joss Whedon a Feminist?
- 32 The Joss Whedon Repertory Company
- 33 Deaths in the Whedonverse
- 34 What's Next for Joss Whedon?
- Bibliography
- Index
