tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660387914019273489.post7383525488114827699..comments2024-02-26T09:29:46.477-05:00Comments on <center>I, Ron, eek!</center>: Reading Buffy Synoptically: Is Buffy Really Ethnocentric, Racist, and Sexist?Ronald Helfrich Jnr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01979221009291819300noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660387914019273489.post-77886884018337705772018-03-30T12:42:12.749-04:002018-03-30T12:42:12.749-04:00The fundamental problem with this argument is that...The fundamental problem with this argument is that it is a reader response argument. To show the perception was intended by the makers of Buffy requires institutional and auteur analysis. It requires an exploration of the documentary record, namely, an exploration of the correspondence between Whedon's company, Kuzui's company, the suits at WB, etc.. Given that those in English Studies and Cultural Studies rarely engage in such documentary emic analysis any hypothesis derived from any textual reading remains incredibly tentative.Ronald Helfrich Jnr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01979221009291819300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660387914019273489.post-38183092455403592982018-03-29T13:56:47.006-04:002018-03-29T13:56:47.006-04:00There's a pattern that seasons 1-3 follow: if ...There's a pattern that seasons 1-3 follow: if you're a black character with more than 10 seconds of screen time and/or have more than 3 lines, you'll be killed off at some point. There are a couple of black extras that get spoken to by actual characters, but aren't given any lines themselves (i.e. Cordelia asking a black girl if her hair is real). They get to live.<br /><br />I think season 4 started letting some of the black extras have lines, but Forrest is killed off.<br /><br />I'd like to think none of this was intentional, but it's pretty noticeable when watching the series today....https://www.blogger.com/profile/16263940635214138096noreply@blogger.com