Mr. Pointy Awards / 2013

For For Works Published in 2012


Short-Form Award

  • Frohard-Dourlent, Hélène. “When the Heterosexual Script Goes Flexible: Public Reactions to Female Heteroflexibility in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Books.” Sexualities 15.5-6 (Sept. 2012): 718-38. Print.

Long-Form Award

  • Recht, Marcus. Der sympathische Vampir: Visualisierungen von Männlichkeiten in der TV-Serie Buffy. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2011. Print.*

* Although the WSA members represent several countries throughout the world, English is the most common–although not the only–language for publication for Whedon Studies scholarship. This is the first year that a work published in a language other than English has received the Mr. Pointy award. Recht’s volume was originally published in 2011; the award jury voted to postpone consideration for one year in order to establish procedures for fairly evaluating non-English works, making Recht’s volume eligible for consideration with works published in 2012. 

Short-Form Finalists

  • Calvert, Bronwen. “Illyria and Monstrous Embodiment.” Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion. Ed. Mary Alice Money, London: Titan, 2012. 181-90. Print.
  • Cochran, Tanya R. “‘Past the Brink of Tacit Support’: Fan Activism and the Whedonverses.” Ed. Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova. Transformative Works and Fan Activism. Spec. issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, 10 (2012): n. pag. Web.
  • McCormick, Casey J. “Making Sense of the Future: Narrative Destabilization in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.” Time in Television Narrative: Exploring the Temporality and 21st-Century Programming. Ed. Melissa Ames. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2012. 205-17. Print.
  • Randell-Moon, Holly. “‘I’m Nobody’: The Somatechnical Construction of Bodies and Identity in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.” Feminist Media Studies 12.2 (2012): 265-80. Print.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Print.
  • Money, Mary Alice, ed., with PopMatters. Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. London: Titan, 2012. Print.
  • Ginn, Sherry. Power and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Print.