Slayage  10.2/11.1 [36-37], Fall 2013/Winter 2014
Special Double Issue, "We Are Not Who We Are": Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Guest Edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Jasie Stokes

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Kristopher Karl Woofter (Dawson College/Concordia University) and Jasie Stokes (University of Louisville)

• Once More into the Woods: An Introduction and Provocation

Erin Giannini (University of East Anglia)

• “Charybdis Tested Well with Teens”: The Cabin in the Woods as Metafictional Critique of Corporate Media Producers and Audiences

Jerry Metz

• What’s Your Fetish?: The Tortured Economics of Horror Simulacra in The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

 
A. P. Nelson (Montana State University)

• Trick ‘R Treat (2007), The Cabin in the Woods and the Defense of Horror’s Subcultural Capital

Gerry Canavan (Marquette University)

• "Something Nightmares Are From": Metacommentary in Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods

L. Andrew Cooper (University of Louisville)

• The Cabin in the Woods and the End of American Exceptionalism

Joe Lipsett (University of Newcastle, Australia)

• “One for the Horror Fans” vs. ”An Insult to the Horror Genre”:  Negotiating Reading Strategies in IMDB Reviews of The Cabin in the Woods

Michael Starr (The University of Northampton)

• Whedon's Great Glass Elevator: Space, Liminality and Intertext in The Cabin in the Woods

Katherine A. Wagner (University of Louisville)

• Haven't We Been Here Before?: The Cabin in the Woods, The Horror Genre, and Placelessness

Rick McDonald (Utah Valley University)

• Sacred Violence and The Cabin in the Woods

Slayage 11.2/12.1 [38-39], Summer 2014
Special Double Issue, Joss in June: Selected Essays
Guest Edited by K. Dale Koontz and Ensley F. Guffey

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K. Dale Koontz (Cleveland Community College)

• Introduction to the Special Issue, Joss in June: Selected Essays

Tanya R. Cochran (Union College)

• "By Beholding, We Become Changed: Narrative Transubstantiation and the Whedonverses"

Dustin Dunaway (Pueblo Community College)

• "Whedon and the Fall of Man: How Joss Whedon Subverts the Myths of Masculinity"

Sara Hays (Middle Tennessee State University)

• "Tight Pants and Pretty Floral Bonnets: Outfitting the Outlaws of the ‘Verse"

Derrick King (University of Florida)

• "The (Bio)political Economy of Bodies, Culture as Commodification, and the Badiouian Event: Reading Political Allegories in The Cabin in the Woods"

Cori Mathis (Middle Tennessee State University)

• "Bringing the Pain: An Examination of Marti Noxon’s Contributions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Masani McGee (University of Rochester)

• "Big Men in Spangly Outfits: Spectacle and Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers"

Jenny Platz (University of Rhode Island)

• "Tamara de Lempicka, Glorificus, and the Modern Woman"

Elizabeth L. Rambo (Campbell University)

• "Banter, Battles, Betrayal, and 'Kissy th’ face!': Sugarshock!’s Playful Whedonverse"

Curtis A. Weyant (Signum University)

• "Exploring Cabins in the Whedonverse Woods"

Rhonda V. Wilcox (Gordon State College)

• "Joss Whedon’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: Historical Double Consciousness, Reflections, and Frames"

Amy A. Williams (University at Albany-SUNY)

• “'All the Cash, All the Fame, and Social Change!': Teaching Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog as a Social Message Film"