Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. In Into Every Generation, pop culture critic Evan Ross Katz, social media's Sarah Michelle Gellar expert, will explore the show's history and cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a very personal fandom that has universal resonance. Katz-with the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew-will reveal that although the show contributed to important conversations about gender, sexuality, and race, it was not free of internal strife and controversy. Men-both on screen and off-would taint its reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing networks would drastically impact the show's tone and the lives of its cast. How those disruptions impact the show's production, the lives of its cast members, and, more broadly, pop culture will be examined. Katz will address these issues and more, including interviews with stars such as Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter, as well as conversations with celebrity Buffy fanatics. Furthermore, Into Every Generation will explore the very notion of fandom, and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.