Big Worlds On Small Screens: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”

by Rebecca Fisher

Introduction:

Back in August last year I wrote about Xena Warrior Princess, calling her one of the two most famous feminist icons of the nineties. The second icon is, of course, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Unlike Xena, who started out as a guest character on another show and was eventually deemed popular enough to warrant her own spin-off, Buffy had more premeditated origins. Created by writer/director Joss Whedon, the character was born out of a deliberate subversion of that old...