Spectatorship and Gender.

The show raises some contradictions to the article. There is also the notion of social interaction between the teenagers. The premise of Buffy is that, at all time throughout history, a single, young woman designated as the slayer has the combination of intelligence, strength and courage necessary to fight the demons roaming the earth. In keeping with the millennial mindset, the late 1990's opened a hellmouth in Sunnydale, California, resulting in an extraordinary number of …

…many paradigms and agrees with many theories of gender and spectatorship, but the future of television is here now and some new theories need to be developed which apply to a more liberal, rapidly evolving society. Yvonne Tasker Spectacular Bodies pp132-152 (Routledge 1995) [i] Anne Kuhn Womens Pictures p.13 (RKP 1983) [ii] Ann Barr Snitow "Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different" in Ann Barr Snitow et al (eds) Desire The Politics of Sexuality (Virago 1984)