Are you my mummy? Complicating the mother in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Main Author: Vasnani, Bhavna Ramesh
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52198
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television show that aired from 1997 to 2003, was created by Joss Whedon with the intention of subverting the typical idea of the helpless blonde damsel in distress being killed by a monster in a horror movie (Whedon, qtd. in Chandler). The heroine of the show, t...