Mr. Pointy Awards / 2020

For For Works Published in 2019


Short-Form Award

  • To be announced

Long-Form Award

  • To be announced

Short-Form Finalists

  • Calvert, Bronwen. “The AI and the Looking Glass: Embodiment, Virtuality, and Power in Agents of SHIELD, Season 4.” Slayage 17.1 (2019): 11-35.
  • Golden, Anne. “The Melancholy Musical: Horror and Avant-Garde Strategies in ‘Once More, with Feeling.’” Joss Whedon vs. The Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Lorna Jowett, Bloomsbury, 2019, 73-91.
  • Hughes, Bill. “Through a glass darkly”: Reflection, Representation, and Mortality in” Eternity.” Slayage 17.2 (2019): 77-95.
  • Purac, Selma A. “The Sonic Horror of ‘Hush.’” Joss Whedon vs. The Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Lorna Jowett, Bloomsbury, 2019, 34-52.
  • Seibel, Svetlana. “There Will Be Another Song for Me”: The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in Angel’s” Orpheus.” Slayage 17.2 (2019): 48-76

Long-Form Finalists

  • Hohenstein, Svenja. Girl warriors: Feminist revisions of the hero’s quest in contemporary popular culture. McFarland, 2019.
  • Woofter, Kristopher Karl, and Lorna Jowett, eds. Joss Whedon Vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.