Mr. Pointy Awards / 2017

For For Works Published in 2016


Short-Form Award

  • Halfyard, Janet. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Long-Form Award

  • Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen and Lowery A. Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.

Short-Form Finalists

  • Bachran, Daoine. “Mexicans in Space? Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Reavers, and the Man They Call Jayne,” in Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, Lowery A Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.
  • Hunter, Aaron. “Performance as Authorship: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy Season 6.” Journal of Film & Video, vol. 68, no. 3/4, 2016, pp. 51–68.
  • Nadkarni, Samira. “‘Memory itself guarantees nothing’: Dollhouse, Witnessing, and ‘the jews,’” in Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, Lowery A Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.
  • Smith, Philip. “‘I Look’d Upon Her with a Soldier’s Eye’: The Normalization of Surveillance ​Culture in Whedon’s Much Ado.” Slayage, vol. 43, 2016, p. 120.

Long-Form Finalists

  • Pender, Patricia. I’m Buffy and You’re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. Tauris, 2016. Investigating Cult TV Series.
  • Sterba, Wendy. J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon: Duel for Media Master of the Universe. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.