Lexington Books
Pages: 180
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-0485-9 • Hardback • December 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-7936-0486-6 • eBook • December 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Andrew F. Herrmann is associate professor of communication studies at East Tennessee State University.
Introduction: Whedon Goes to Work
Chapter 1: The Scooby Gang as a Web of Inclusion
Chapter 2: The Patriarchal Power of The Watchers Council and The Initiative
Chapter 3: Team Angel Enters Wolfram & Hart
Chapter 4: The Failure of Leadership in Buffy Season Eight
Chapter 5: Living in a Woman’s World with Lilah Morgan
Chapter 6: Complex Systems and a World Without Sin
Chapter 7: The Corporate Colonization of Topher Brink
Chapter 8: The Upstairs and the Downstairs Discourses in Cabin in the Woods
Chapter 9: The Avengers Meet Terror Management Theory
Conclusion: Let’s Go To Work
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Cabin in the Woods, Andrew F. Herrmann provides a fresh perspective on Joss Whedon’s works. Merging organizational communication research with popular culture studies, Herrmann interrogates issues of power, ethics, leadership, and identity. A critical and fun look at to how organizations are represented in media and the ways in which organizations can shape our lives!
— Stephanie L. Young, University of Southern Indiana
Andrew F. Herrmann’s writing jumps off the page in the form of gripping story while simultaneously teaching the reader how to think critically about organizing in popular culture. The text is applicable, accessible, entertaining, and full of brilliant insight merging organizational communication with popular culture studies.
— Jeni Hunniecutt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew F. Hermann bridges organizational communication with popular culture seamlessly, providing accessible and practical examples of complex theory. Organizational Communication Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon is pedagogical gold.
— Abby Lackey, Jackson State Community College