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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the connections between communication, organization, gender, discourses, and ethics in the works of Joss Whedon. It examines how characters go to work in them, how characters fight against them, and how some organizations themselves are characters.
List of contents
Introduction: Whedon Goes to Work
Chapter 1: The Scooby Gang as a Web of Inclusion
Chapter 2: The Patriarchal Power of The Watchers Council and The Initiative
Chapter 3: Team Angel Enters Wolfram & Hart
Chapter 4: The Failure of Leadership in Buffy Season Eight
Chapter 5: Living in a Woman's World with Lilah Morgan
Chapter 6: Complex Systems and a World Without Sin
Chapter 7: The Corporate Colonization of Topher Brink
Chapter 8: The Upstairs and the Downstairs Discourses in Cabin in the Woods
Chapter 9: The Avengers Meet Terror Management Theory
Conclusion: Let's Go To Work
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By Andrew F. Herrmann
Summary
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the connections between communication, organization, gender, discourses, and ethics in the works of Joss Whedon. It examines how characters go to work in them, how characters fight against them, and how some organizations themselves are characters.
