Mr. Pointy Awards / 2010

For For Works Published in 2009


Short-Form Award

  • Jonathan McIntosh. “What Would Buffy Do?: Notes on Dusting Edward Cullen.” WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND . . . Women in Media & News, 1 July 2009. Web.

Long-Form Award

  • Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo, and James B. South, eds. Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. Foreword by David Lavery. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. Print.

Paper Award for the 4th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (2010)

  • Forhard-Dourlent, Hélène. “Buffy/Satsu: Pure Genius or Out Of Character? Complicating Fan Responses to Modern Narratives of Sexuality.”

Short-Form Finalists

  • Clemons, Leigh. “Genre and the Impact on Storytelling in Season Eight.” Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin K. Durand. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 25-31. Print.
  • Fritts, David. “Buffy’s Seven-Season Initiation.” Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. 32-44. Print.
  • Hill, Kathryn. “’Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy’: An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet.” Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet. 172-96. Print.
  • Kociemba, David. “’Fake It Till You Make It’: Understanding Media Addiction and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet. 127-46. Print.
  • —. “Understanding the Espensode.” Buffy Goes Dark. 95-113. Print.
  • Loftis, J. Robert. “Moral Complexity in the Buffyverse.” Slayage 27 (Winter 2009). Web.
  • Jarvis, Christine. “’I Run to Death’: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage 27 (Winter 2009). Web.
  • Nylin, Soren. “Mad, Bad Scientists and Cute, Curious Magicians: The Quest for Knowledge in Buffy and the Whedonverse.” Slayage 28 (Summer 2009). Web.
  • Rebaza, Claudia. “The Problematic Definition of ‘Fan’: A Survey of Fannish Involvement in the Buffyverse.” Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet. 147-71. Print.
  • Ryan, Brandy. “’It’s Complicated…Because of Tara’: History, Identity Politics and the Straight White Male Author.”  Buffy Goes Dark. 57-74. Print.
  • Shull, Ira, and Anne Shull. “The Candide of Sunnydale: Andrew Wells as Satire of Pop Culture and Marketing Trends.” Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. 75-82. Print.
  • Stangl, Chris. “Watcher’s Council: The Original Draft of Buffy.” Exploding Kinetoscope August 2009. Web.
  • Wilcox, Rhonda V. “’Set on This Earth Like a Bubble’: Word as Flesh in the Dark Seasons.” Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television. 95-113.. Print.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Abbott, Stacey. Angel. TV Milestones Series. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 2009.
  • Durand, Kevin K., ed. Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.
  • Edwards, Lynne Y., Elizabeth L. Rambo, and James B. South, eds. Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television.  Foreword by David Lavery. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. Print.
  • Kirby-Diaz, Mary, ed. Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.