Research Catalog

Title

Joss Whedon : the biography / Amy Pascale.

Author

Pascale, Amy.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2014]

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Details

Description

viii, 440 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Follows [Whedon's] development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes--which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)--to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series [to his work on the blockbuster The Avengers and home-shot Much ado about nothing]"--Amazon.com.

Subjects

• Television writers
• Television producers and directors
• Biographies
• United States
• Whedon, Joss, 1964-
• Television writers > United States > Biography
• Television producers and directors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- A family of storytellers -- "Being British" in the lad of Shakespeare (and Giles) -- Crash course in television -- The blonde in the alley fights back -- The world upends -- To infinity and beyond: Toy Story and Alien: Resurrection -- Buffy: resurrection -- Buffy premieres -- The bronze -- The Buffy way -- Front-page news -- Growing up: Angel -- A new challenge: silence -- Shakespeare fanboy -- Buffy goes back to high school -- Once more, with feeling -- We aim to misbehave: Firefly -- Curse your sudden but inevitable cancellation -- End of (Buffy's) days -- An astonishing return to his roots -- Not fade away -- Grant me the Serenity -- Election 2004 -- I wrote my thesis on you -- Serenity lands -- Strong female characters -- A new way of storytelling -- WGA writers' strike -- Doctor Horrible, I presume -- Dollhouse -- The Cabin in the Woods -- Fanboy dreams come true: The Avengers -- Buffy lives, again? -- Avengers assemble -- Something personal: Much Ado About Nothing -- The year of Joss Whedon -- The year of Joss Whedon, again (really).

ISBN

• 9781613741047
• 1613741049

LCCN

^^2014011192

OCLC

• 863596656
• SCSB-12283797

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library