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Slayage 17.2 [50], Summer / Fall 2019
“Let’s Go to Work”: The Legacy of Angel – A Slayage Special Issue 
Guest Edited by Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown

Introduction: “I kinda want to slay the dragon”: Angel and Its Legacy [pp. 1-18)
Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton)
 
Homefires Burning: Domestic Space in the Noir City of Angel [pp. 19-47]
Lorrie Palmer (Towson University)
 
“There Will Be Another Song for Me”: The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in Angel ’s “Orpheus” [pp. 48-76]
Svetlana Seibel (Saarland University, Germany)
 
“Through a glass darkly”: Reflection, Representation, and Mortality in “Eternity” [pp. 77-95]
Bill Hughes (University of Hertfordshire)
 
On the Meaningfulness of Helping the Helpless: Revisiting Angel’s Mission [pp. 96-124]
Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
 
Made to Suffer: The Redemptive Power of Disability in Angel  [pp. 125-154]
Catherine Pugh (Independent Scholar)
 
The Shell She’s In: Fred, Illyria, and Thoughts on Bodies [pp. 155-179]
Tony Kemerly (High Point University), with Victoria Morgan (Methodist University)
 
Of Moonlight and Miracles: The Influence of Angel on David Greenwalt’s Immediate Post-Whedon Series [pp. 180-209]
Erin Giannini (Independent Scholar)

Slayage 17.1 [49], Winter / Spring 2019
Special Issue: “A Part of Something Bigger”: Critical Approaches to Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers 
Guest Edited by Eve Bennett and Erin Giannini

Introduction: “A Part of Something Bigger”: Critical Approaches to Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers  [pp. 1-10]
  — Eve Bennett (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3) and Erin Giannini (Independent Scholar)
 
The AI and the Looking Glass: Embodiment, Virtuality, and Power in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 4  [pp. 11-35]
  — Bronwen Calvert (The Open University)
 
“It’s nowhere special”: Representations of Eastern Europe in Avengers: Age of Ultron  [pp. 36-57]
   -- Katia McClain (UC Santa Barbara)
 
“It Matters Who You Are”: Parenting Styles in S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra  [pp. 58-88]
  — Heather M. Porter (Independent Scholar) and Erin Giannini (Independent Scholar)
 
Economies of Transmedia Violence in The Avengers Films and the Constraints of Auteurship  [pp. 89-119]
  — Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
 
Fooling with Fashion: Costume as Comic Catalyst in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers  [pp. 120-150]
  — K. Brenna Wardell (University of North Alabama)

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