Mr. Pointy Awards / 2007

For For Works Published in 2006


Short-Form Award

  • Kociemba, David. “‘Actually, it explains a lot’: Reading the Opening Title Sequences of BtVS.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (Winter 2006): n. pag. Web.

Long-Form Award

  • Pateman, Matthew. The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. Print.

Short-Form Finalists

  • Bradney, Anthony. “The Politics and Ethics of Researching the Buffyverse,” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.3 (Feb. 2006): n. pag. Web.
  • Amy-Chinn, Dee. “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore: Postfeminist Prostitution in Joss Whedon’s Firefly?” Feminist Media Studies 6.2 (June 2006): 175-189. Print.
  • Hollis, Erin. “Gorgonzola Sandwiches and Yellow Crayons: James Joyce, BtVS, and the Aesthetic of Minutiae.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (Winter 2006): n. pag. Web. 
  • Masson, Cynthea, and Marni Stanley. “Queer Eye of That Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.2 (Winter 2006): n. pag. Web.
  • Wilcox, Rhonda V.”In ‘the Demon Section of the Card Catalog’: Buffy Studies and Television Studies.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.1 (Fall 2006): n. pag. Web. Joint publication with Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies of Small Screen Fictions 1.1 (Spring 2006): 37-48. Print.*

*Wilcox, having won the long-form Mr. Pointy in 2005, gratefully acknowledged this nomination and requested to be omitted from consideration in the final vote.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Richardson, J. Michael, and J. Douglas Rabb. The Existential Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. Print.