The Mr. Pointy Award Winners!

We are extremely pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Whedon Studies Association awards for excellence in scholarship:

Short Mr. Pointy Winner

Buckman, Alyson R. "'Go Ahead, Run Away! Say it was Horrible!': Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog as Resistant Text." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.1 (2010): n. pag. Web.

Long Mr. Pointy Winner

Attinello, Paul, Janet K. Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights, eds. Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Print.

Congratulations to the winners--and all of the nominees! The quality of scholarship the jury had to select from demonstrates the clear and continued growth of Whedon Studies.

The other finalists this year were:


Short Mr. Pointy finalists:

Buckman, Alyson R. “Triangulated Desire in Angel and Buffy.” Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 48-92. Print.

Frohard-Dourlent, Hélène. "'Lez-faux' Representations: How Buffy Season Eight Navigates the Politics of Female Heteroflexibility." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 31-47. Print.

Kociemba, David. “To Spoil or Not to Spoil: Teaching Television’s Narrative Complexity.” Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 7-21. Print.

Masson, Cynthea. “Who Painted the Lion?—A Gloss on Dollhouse’s ‘Belle Chose.’” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 8.2-3 (2010): n. pag. Special Issue: Fantasy Is Not Their Purpose: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Eds. Cynthea Masson and Rhonda V. Wilcox. Web.

Long Mr. Pointy finalists

Comeford, Amijo and Tamy Burnett, eds. The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. Print.

Kreider, Jodie A., and Meghan K. Winchell, eds. Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. Print.

Waggoner, Erin B, ed. Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. Print.