The Afterlife of Genre, Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Author

Adler

Year

2014

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

16-Jan-2026

Keywords

Communication Studies

Description

Yet one thing above all is lacking for the analogy with the mourning play to be complete. There is no, or almost no, mourning. Despite the occasional brooding of the vampires and the human moodiness and all the travails that Buffy must endure as slayer, mourning, especially during the first three seasons, never becomes the dominant mood.⁶ It is never allowed to develop according to its own logic, but instead is always transformed into something else, directed into another, essentially different affect. This absence, it goes without saying, is of great consequence. Mourning (Trauer) for Benjamin is not simply one...