Cult TV

 

 

Cult TV

 

Buffy the Vampire slayer (1997-2003)

 

Genre: Cult TV

 

 

 

What role does Hills (2004) suggest the fans play in the construction of cult TV? How is new media central to this?

 

 

 

 

 

Cult TV literacy is dealing with inter-sexuality and has narratives of the conflict between good and evil. It often starts with a conflict. This genre has a pedigree such as Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and King Lear. Like Frankenstein, "Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire slayer, has often said that the kernel of an idea for Buffy came with the reversal of an image from horror: a fragile-looking young woman walks into a dark place is attacked-and then thus turns and destroys attacker." This technique is used to build the character. Carry on, Hills (2004) states, "Thus the character of Buffy was born to fight the forces of darkness-vampires, demons, of all varieties, as the first epigraph declares.”

 

It is formed in a serialised television, like American serial Buffy the Vampire slayer. Prisma 1980s currently being re-imagined through Buffy the Vampire slayer.

 

He had a great casting as "Quailty TV tends to have a large ensemble cast."

 

As Hills (2004) says, 'The name "Buffy" suggests the lightest of lightweight girls of stereotypical limitation- thoughtless, materialistic, and superficial.'  It has post-feminism theory.

 

 

 

"I need to go and find something to wear tonight" (Buffy, The Initiative, 4 007) this quote is directly referencing to fandom.

 

 

 

 

 

Hill defines the cult TV; "Science fiction/fantasy/horror varieties of cult TV often render the fantastic digieticallty commonplace by virtue of defining and developing fantastic beings and worlds over a lengthy period of time and in great amounts of detail.” This quote is showing that making Cult TV needs creativity and imagination.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

 

 

 

Hills, M. (2004). Defining Cult TV; Texts,

 

Inter-texts and Fan Audiences, The

 

Television Studies Reader, in R. C. Allen

 

& A. Hill. London and New York:

 

Routledge.