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Attinello, Paul G, Janet K. Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ashgate, 2010. Print.
Bishop, Kyle. “Technophobia and the Cyborg Menace: Buffy Summers as Neo-Human Avatar.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 19, no. 3 (74), 2008, pp. 349–362, www.jstor.org/stable/24352381.
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Burr, Vixen. "'Oh Spike, you're covered in sexy wounds!': The Erotic Significance of Wounding and Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Sex, Violence, and the Body: The Erotics of Wounding, edited by Vivien Burr and Jeff Hearn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-156.
Frankel, Valerie E. Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer As Feminine Chosen One. McFarland, 2012. Internet resource.
Gerrits, Jeroen. "When Horror Becomes Human: Living Conditions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." MLN, vol. 127 no. 5, 2012, pp. 1059-1070.
Rambo, Elizabeth L. “Studies in Popular Culture.” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 126–128., www.jstor.org/table/23418077.
Vint, Sherryl. “Killing us Softly”? A Feminist Search for the “Real” Buffy." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, vol. 2, no.1, May 2002. Available online.
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FUN FACT: it's hard to define a field by its moving-past another field! it's also hard, then, to make a comprehensive bibliography about it for a niche show!
Faced with potential annihilation at the mechanically enhanced hands of Adam, Buffy acts as the neo-human avatar in a post-human world: in other worlds, she is physical embodiment of humanistic ideal, an iconic personification who relies on her physical strength, mystical abilities, and human social relationships to defeat the cybernetic Übermensch .
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--Kyle Bishop, "Technophobia and the Cyborg Menace: Buffy Summers as Neo-Human Avatar"
