Description
Book Synopsis Intersecting with fan studies, TV and comics studies, queer, disability and feminist studies, as well as popular culture and media scholarship, this collection of essays is the first to offer critical examinations of Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the broader Archie/Sabrina comics universe. Its authors interrogate these texts in an effort not only to make sense of their chaotic stories, but to understand our own ongoing fascination with their narratives. Contributing to a greater cultural conversation about representation in media, authors find unexpected value in the oftentimes ridiculous (mis)adventures of the Archie/Sabrina expanded universe.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Heather McAlpine, W. Ron Sweeney and Jess Wind
- Archie Must Die: On the Many Lives and Deaths of Archie Andrews
- W. Ron Sweeney
- On Becoming a Citizen of Riverdale: Narrative Expansion Through Fanfiction, Interactive Fiction, and Other Apocryphal (Hyper)Texts
- Dessa Bayrock
- Endless Authorship: Fanfiction, Copyright, and the Extended Archie Universe
- Kirsten Bussière
- Chilling Adventures in Feminism: Sabrina Is Not the Feminist Heroine We Need
- Katie Stobbart
- "When will the world learn? Women should be in charge of everything": Lilith as Villain, Victim, and Feminist in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Sarah Stang
- "Put your cape away": Riverdale's #MeToo Moment
- Melissa Wehler
- Watching Them, Watch Them: The Coded Movement of Betty's Pole Dance and Our Passive Audience Gaze
- Hannah Meghan Celinski
- Punk Rock Prom Queen to Covergirl: Teens and Consumption in Riverdale and Josie and the Pussycats
- Kaarina Mikalson
- Archie Got Hot: How Embracing the Queer Art of Failure Allows the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to Shift Queer Readings Away from Identity
- Mat Wenzel
- Disability in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Whitney Tiffany Renville
- "First as tragedy, then as farce": The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Satanic Moral Panic
- Brett Pardy
- About the Contributors
- Index
