Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation

Big Business Critiqued in the Films and Television Programs

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by Erin Giannini

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Joss Whedon

Keywords

Joss Whedon, economics

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Collection

Worlds of Whedon

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 223 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-6776-8

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Book Presentation:
Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world. Within these works is a prevalent yet commonly overlooked theme—the corporate antagonist.

This book examines the effects of this corporate culture on the protagonists of Whedon’s most famous works (including Buffy, Roseanne, the Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dollhouse) to reveal explicit sociopolitical commentaries on corporate control in the real world.

About the Author:
Erin Giannini served as an editor and contributor at PopMatters, and has written numerous articles about topics from corporate culture in genre television to production-level shifts and their effects on television texts. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.

See the publisher website: McFarland & Co