2001•Journal of American & Comparative CulturesRequires access

“All Torment, Trouble, Wonder, and Amazement Inhabits Here”: The Vicissitudes of Technology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

James B. South

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Argues that several central themes in the television program "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" can be understood best by looking at the sources of social relations conditioned by technology. Citations of several passages about cultural obsession with the occult; Description of a technological society; Difference between the real world and the world portrayed in the TV program.

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Key concepts: Vampire, Wonder, Media studies, Art history, Philosophy, Art, Literature, Sociology