Performance as Authorship: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy Season 6

More specifically, Gellar's performance as Buffy allowed the show to maintain a consistency and a connection with its audience that the writing sometimes seemed willing to abandon, even (or especially) during moments when the narrative took the character to places that Gellar the actor did not...

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Published in:Journal of film and video 2016-12, Vol.68 (3-4), p.51-68
Main Author: Hunter, Aaron
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acting for television
Actors
Analysis
Authors
Authorship
Authorship attribution
Boards of trustees
Cinema and Film Studies
Collaboration
Criticism and interpretation
Gellar, Sarah Michelle
Motion Pictures
Movies
Narratives
Paratext
Production and direction
Quality
Scholars
Seasons
Television actors and actresses
Television programs
Television scripts
Television viewers
Vampires
Writers
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Summary:More specifically, Gellar's performance as Buffy allowed the show to maintain a consistency and a connection with its audience that the writing sometimes seemed willing to abandon, even (or especially) during moments when the narrative took the character to places that Gellar the actor did not always feel comfortable with. [...]Gellar's performance works in dialogue with production contributions by Whedon, Noxon, and others to exemplify a form of multiple authorship, in which different artistic contributions work in unison toward the creation of a greater whole in the form of an episode, season, or series.2 Each of these acts of authorship can, in turn, be delineated and analyzed for its impact on the finished product. [...]Gellar's authorship-of both character and narrative-provides a through line for the large number of the show's viewers who find the dark season 6 difficult to accept on narrative terms.
ISSN:0742-4671
1934-6018
DOI:10.5406/jfilmvideo.68.3-4.0051