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Book Review - Slayers and Vampires The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorised, Oral History of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman

Slayers and Vampires

The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized, Oral History of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel


by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman




 ISBN 9780752266350
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Pub Date 05 Oct 2017 

Blurb


"In 1997 the first episode of a new show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired. It's fair to say that following the critically panned and commercially unsuccessful film of the same name five years previously, expectations were not high. However over the course of 144 episodes and the successful spin-off show, Angel, it produced some of the best and best-loved television of all time. And its creator Joss Whedon's subversive take on supernatural stories has shaped everything from Marvel to Star Wars. Before Buffy, if a girl and a monster went into an alleyway and there was no boy to save her, only the monster came back out. Buffy changed all that. Twenty years on, the story of the girl who saved the universe . . . a lot and the world's most emotionally complicated vampire is told in Slayers and Vampires by the people who were there. TV experts Edward Gross and Mark Altman talked to almost 100 writers, producers, directors, filmmakers, sociologists and stars from Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel in new and vintage interviews from their personal archives, among them: Joss Whedon Guillermo del Toro Felicia Day Anthony Stewart Head Charisma Carpenter James Marsters David Boreanaz Amy Acker J. August Richards Eliza Dushku Christian Kane Julie Benz And More!"

Review



Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel were huge shows to me growing up and I loved each episode of both series's for a long time, so coming across this book was a great dive further into the world of Buffy and the gang.

With the show having ended this is a nice refresher into the story reminding you of the show you once loved and the cast that grabbed your attention every week.

The book isn't focused solely on the one subject and strays a lot while talking to many people that can sometimes contradict the flow, it feels a little like there isn't much of a goal with it other than to just show you many experiences with no underlying narrative or goal to the book that keeps everything moving in the right direction.

It is nice and easy for reading and brings you back to the show you will have loved but I feel with a strong name bringing big promises, some of those promises fall short of expectation.

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