Mr. Pointy Awards / 2017
For Works Published in 2016

1 November 2017
 
For Immediate Release:
On behalf of the Whedon Studies Association, the Whedon Studies Award (the “Mr. Pointy”) Jury is pleased to announce the finalists and winner for the 2017 awards for outstanding short-form work (Short Mr. Pointy) in Whedon Studies. Works eligible for this year’s Long Mr. Pointy award were all published during 2016. These finalists represent the highest level of scholarship and original contributions to the field of Whedon Studies.

Short (essay-length) Mr. Pointy finalists:
  • Bachran, Daoine. “Mexicans in Space? Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Reavers, and the Man They Call Jayne,” in Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, Lowery A Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.
  • Halfyard, Janet. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. I.B. Tauris, 2016.
  • Hunter, Aaron. “Performance as Authorship: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy Season 6.” Journal of Film & Video, vol. 68, no. 3/4, 2016, pp. 51–68.
  • Nadkarni, Samira. “‘Memory itself guarantees nothing’: Dollhouse, Witnessing, and ‘the jews,’” in Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, Lowery A Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.
  • Smith, Philip. “‘I Look’d Upon Her with a Soldier’s Eye’: The Normalization of Surveillance ​Culture in Whedon’s Much Ado.” Slayage, vol. 43, 2016, p. 120.

The winner of the 2017 Short Mr. Pointy is “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” from Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. Congratulations to the winning author.
1 August 2017
 
For Immediate Release:
On behalf of the Whedon Studies Association, the Whedon Studies Award (the “Mr. Pointy”) Jury is pleased to announce the finalists and winner for the 2017 awards for outstanding work of manuscript length (Long Mr. Pointy) in Whedon Studies. Works eligible for this year’s Long Mr. Pointy award were all published during 2016. These finalists represent the highest level of scholarship and original contributions to the field of Whedon Studies.

Long (manuscript-length) Mr. Pointy finalists:
  • Iatropoulos, Mary Ellen and Lowery A. Woodall III, eds. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. McFarland, 2016.
  • Pender, Patricia. I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism. Tauris, 2016. Investigating Cult TV Series.
  • Sterba, Wendy. J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon: Duel for Media Master of the Universe. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
The winner of the 2017 Long Mr. Pointy is Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Congratulations to the winning editors and contributors.
Jury Members

​Bronwen Calvert
AmiJo Comeford 
Sherry Ginn
Ensley F. Guffey
Mary Ellen Iatropolous
Michael Starr

Alternates
Richard Albright
Malgorzata (Gosia) Drewniok
Julie Hawk